Sublime Text 3 Ubuntu PPA (Now Available To Non-Registered Users)

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://www.sublimetext.com/">Sublime Text</a> is a popular text editor somewhat similar to TextMate, available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDDQ6KpeVvzQ7ZmKlMLwkOjWfv3cvMwr2Slbney-Fm0s98voR43P_DW5EluLtkHeFdOcHd8QKY6oDAgK6TbMyrooVj3UnUS9LY9S8B4iR5qrze7CdIqYftuUkkdmWGqb2w58zcKr8bSB8/s916/sublime-text-3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Sublime Text 3 Ubuntu" border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDDQ6KpeVvzQ7ZmKlMLwkOjWfv3cvMwr2Slbney-Fm0s98voR43P_DW5EluLtkHeFdOcHd8QKY6oDAgK6TbMyrooVj3UnUS9LY9S8B4iR5qrze7CdIqYftuUkkdmWGqb2w58zcKr8bSB8/s320/sublime-text-3.png" title="Sublime Text 3 Ubuntu" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Initially, <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/01/sublime-text-3-beta-available-for.html">version 3</a> was only available to registered users (a license costs USD $70) however, the latest Sublime Text 3 beta builds are now <a href="http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-3-public-beta">available to all</a> and like Sublime Text 2, it can be evaluated for an unlimited period of time.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Recently I've received quite a few requests to create a PPA for Sublime Text 3 because, even though there are deb packages available for download, users must manually install each update. So I've created a PPA you can use to easily install and stay up to date with the latest Sublime Text 3 (currently in beta) builds in Ubuntu and derivates. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The package in the PPA is just an installer and works like our Oracle Java Installer package: it downloads the Sublime Text 3 archive from its website and installs it on the system. The PPA does not host any Sublime Text 3 files.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Sublime Text 3 in Ubuntu via PPA</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Before proceeding, if you've already installed Sublime Text, make sure the application is not running</b> or else there might be some visual glitches (that's because the package in our PPA will replace any already existing Sublime Text deb packages). This only occurs when switching from the Sublime Text 3 debs downloaded from its website to the packages in our PPA.<br /><br />Also, using the instructions below, the old Sublime Text 2 package (if you've used our <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/03/sublime-text-2-ubuntu-ppa.html">Sublime Text 2 PPA</a>) will be replaced with the new Sublime Text 3.</div><br /><b>To add the WebUpd8 Sublime Text 3 (beta) PPA and install the application in Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04, 12.10 or 12.04 (and derivatives), use the following commands:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/sublime-text-3<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install sublime-text-installer</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you don't want to use our PPA or don't use Ubuntu, <b>download Sublime Text 3 </b>from <b><a href="http://www.sublimetext.com/3">HERE</a></b>.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Tip: </b>to disable new version notifications, add the following to your User Preferences file (<i>Preferences > Settings - User</i>):</div><pre class="source-code"><code>"update_check": false</code></pre><br /><i>Also see: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/01/easily-discover-and-install-plugins-in.html">Easily Discover And Install Plugins In Sublime Text 2 or 3 With Sublime Package Control</a></i>

Sublime Text 3 Ubuntu PPA (Now Available To Non-Registered Users)

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Sublime Text 3 Beta Available For Download

<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.sublimetext.com/">Sublime Text</a> is probably among the best text/code editors available for Linux, and it's cross-platform so it works on Windows and Mac OS X too. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sublime Text 2 stable was released about 7 months ago and since then, its developer has been working on a new version: <a href="http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-3-beta">Sublime Text 3</a>. Even though Sublime Text is not free, up until now, users could evaluate it for an unlimited period of time which basically meant you didn't really had to buy it unless you wanted to support the developer. However, the latest Sublime Text 3 beta can only be used if you've purchased a license (USD $70, pretty expensive I'd say), but the old evaluation model might be used later on.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV1YCkty5328riI70bxOervsp9ByCR8bL7qUyKAQbOnhP4YxWPxcxh_kCHjniTdkVTw-ITS0jraPlZ4jVwv1QzDP3hCYl3QmwwKYPcpdOGRyamie-gPWpk3SW6ONUIN9NANk_zmWBUJ-Sl/s1600/sublime-text-3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV1YCkty5328riI70bxOervsp9ByCR8bL7qUyKAQbOnhP4YxWPxcxh_kCHjniTdkVTw-ITS0jraPlZ4jVwv1QzDP3hCYl3QmwwKYPcpdOGRyamie-gPWpk3SW6ONUIN9NANk_zmWBUJ-Sl/s320/sublime-text-3.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Starting with the latest Sublime Text 3 beta builds, the application now uses <b>Python 3.3</b> for the plugins and also, it runs them out of process so they can't crash the main Sublime Text process anymore. Also, the new version comes with new features such as Goto Definition and Goto Symbol, speed improvements, improved pane management, symbol indexing and many other changes about which you can read <a href="http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-3-beta">HERE</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But this is not all, since Sublime Text 3 is currently in beta, it should improve quite a lot until the final release - if you've used the alpha and beta Sublime Text 2 builds, you're probably aware of how fast new builds are released.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I maintain a Sublime Text 2 PPA but I won't be uploading any Sublime Text 3 builds yet, given that it can't be evaluated for an unlimited period of time (for free) any more. However, the there are now official deb packages available for download so you can easily install the latest Sublime Text 3 beta in Ubuntu, Linux Mint and other Debian-based Linux distributions. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you haven't tried Sublime Text before, I suggest you give version 2 a try, you'll find it <a href="http://www.sublimetext.com/2">HERE</a> (and in <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/06/sublime-text-20-stable-released-ppa.html">our Sublime Text PPA</a>).</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.sublimetext.com/3">Download Sublime Text 3 beta</a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Also see: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/01/easily-discover-and-install-plugins-in.html">Sublime Package Control</a> - a tool to easily install plugins; it's like apt, but for Sublime Text.</i></div>

Sublime Text 3 Beta Available For Download

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Eclipse IDE: Get Ubuntu AppMenu And HUD Support

<div style="text-align: justify;">By default, the popular Eclipse IDE does not support the Ubuntu AppMenu or  <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/01/hud-ubuntus-new-smart-menus-announced.html">HUD</a>. The reason for this is that Eclipse has been <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libdbusmenu/+bug/618587">blacklisted</a> so it wouldn't use the AppMenu around the time of Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat because it didn't work back then.<br /><br />Now Eclipse does work with the AppMenu, however, there are some minor glitches like some menu shortcuts not being displayed (although they do work). If this isn't a problem for you, <b>here's a quick way to whitelist Eclipse so it can make use of Ubuntu's Appmenu and HUD</b>.</div><br />Below you can see Eclipse IDE with global menu and HUD support running in Ubuntu 13.04:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDLWPSmXaqlE2lNYaH5iH-AVggDDxKakrhr4yxuwai-J7adgG_UdglNralEke8LbP7mazXLQnzUa8SyaKpjwo3KvV9Eed39VehZae6gleLhIIekTrROOGUoOu4Wclwesbvr1VparIeQlN8/s1600/eclipse-ide-global-menu.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDLWPSmXaqlE2lNYaH5iH-AVggDDxKakrhr4yxuwai-J7adgG_UdglNralEke8LbP7mazXLQnzUa8SyaKpjwo3KvV9Eed39VehZae6gleLhIIekTrROOGUoOu4Wclwesbvr1VparIeQlN8/s320/eclipse-ide-global-menu.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqbw7RfWB_I76GHu4Rtb5yJ440vUUgtsWSaZrHLG5EkMq5UhLUPCYCzNgqoVFrNEi0-SyaoeumcO2dOTNIRQZsbpInGfnXo1R9QWoyDUvizRtDqJtnBxQ87X1rOIflKdvCZGxR-witX1_K/s1600/eclipse-ide-hud-ubuntu.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqbw7RfWB_I76GHu4Rtb5yJ440vUUgtsWSaZrHLG5EkMq5UhLUPCYCzNgqoVFrNEi0-SyaoeumcO2dOTNIRQZsbpInGfnXo1R9QWoyDUvizRtDqJtnBxQ87X1rOIflKdvCZGxR-witX1_K/s320/eclipse-ide-hud-ubuntu.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><h2>HUD and AppMenu support for Eclipse IDE in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The ideal solution would be to rebuilt AppMenu from source with Eclipse whitelisted by default, but since that's considered complicated by most users, here's an easier solution.<br /><br /><b>The instructions below should work with any Ubuntu version. </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>1.</b> To get <b>Ubuntu AppMenu </b><b>(global menu) and HUD support for Eclipse IDE,</b> we'll have to whitelist it so we'll hve to modify the GTK2 libappmenu.so file. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">To find out the exact GTK2 libappmenu.so path (the path can vary depending on the Ubuntu version you're using and architecture), firstly run the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo updatedb</code></pre><br />Once it finishes (there's no output so just wait until it's done), let's find the GTK2 libappmenu.so path by using the following command:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>locate "gtk-2.0/2.10.0/menuproxies/libappmenu.so"</code></pre>The above command should return the exact GTK2 libappmenu.so path.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>2.</b> Let's make a <b>backup</b> before proceeding, so using the path returned by the command above, run the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo cp <b>/path/to/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/menuproxies/</b>libappmenu.so <b>/path/to/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/menuproxies</b>/libappmenu.so.bak</code></pre><br /><b>3. Now let's whielist Eclipse so it supports AppMenu and HUD:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo sed -i 's/Eclipse/Xclipse/g' <b>/path/to/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/menuproxies/</b>libappmenu.so</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For the last to commands above, remember to use the exact path to the GtK2 libappmenu.so you've found under step 1!</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Alternatively, you can also use <a href="https://launchpad.net/~absinthesyringe/+archive/eclipse">a PPA</a> which comes with a package that basically  runs all these commands automatically but: the PPA may give you the wrong impression that if you remove the package, everything is reverted and in fact it's not; also, </i><i>you'll still have to reinstall the package if Appmenu Gtk2 is updated (so by the way, you'll have to follow these instructions again if that package is updated); and finally, </i><i>the PPA package doesn't work correctly for Ubuntu 12.04. That's why I've preferred the manual instructions over the PPA.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>That's it! Now restart Eclipse IDE and it should now support the Ubuntu appmenu (global menu) and HUD.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Note: if the AppMenu package is updated, you'll have to reinstall the "eclipse-enable.appmenu" package.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>If later on you want to disable appmenu / HUD support for Eclipse IDE</b> (undo the changes), simply follow the first step above to find out the GTK2 libappmenu.so path and restore the backup we've made under step 2 using this command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo cp <b>/path/to/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/menuproxies/</b>libappmenu.so.bak <b>/path/to/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/menuproxies/</b>libappmenu.so</code></pre><br />And then, restart Eclipse IDE.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>solution via Launchpad <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libdbusmenu/+bug/618587">bug report</a> (thanks to Vasile Rotaru)</i></div>

Eclipse IDE: Get Ubuntu AppMenu And HUD Support

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Sublime Text 2.0 Stable Released - PPA Update

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheki3tcBnCqefyoQbukycWg6zHXjVZ3OM7fqxMbdfoga3cQ1puj8OqvUPdD6R5nEdm8eaXr7hi03eGoGUEv9ZvbmKK-Pc2tK8UiDeKt7wN9NMCUwV9mufnZELbqPoEPw0ImaOOUmTckiuo/s1600/sublime-text-2.0.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="sublime text 2" border="0" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheki3tcBnCqefyoQbukycWg6zHXjVZ3OM7fqxMbdfoga3cQ1puj8OqvUPdD6R5nEdm8eaXr7hi03eGoGUEv9ZvbmKK-Pc2tK8UiDeKt7wN9NMCUwV9mufnZELbqPoEPw0ImaOOUmTckiuo/s320/sublime-text-2.0.png" title="sublime text 2" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><a href="http://www.sublimetext.com/2">Sublime Text 2</a> is a cool, TextMate-like text editor that runs on Linux, Windows and Mac OSX. After being in alpha / beta testing for more than a year, the first stable version has finally been released today.</i></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">This post is a quick update for those using our <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/03/sublime-text-2-ubuntu-ppa.html">Sublime Text 2 Ubuntu PPA</a>: since there are no more Sublime Text 2 beta builds, I've made some changes to the packages and the stable version package name is "sublime-text", while the development package name is now "sublime-text-dev" (I've renamed them to avoid conflicts), however, those who have installed the beta / dev builds and aren't reading this post will still get updates thanks to a meta package (though it's probably better to simply remove any installed Sublime Text 2 packages and install stable or development version using the instructions below).<br /><br /><i>Besides automatic updates, the PPA package comes with a proper desktop file with Unity integration (quicklists and drag'n'drop support), a "subl" command line alias, etc. </i></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Add the WebUpd8 Sublime Text 2 PPA (available for Ubuntu 12.10, 12.04, 11.10, 11.04, 10.10 and 10.04) using the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/sublime-text-2<br />sudo apt-get update</code></pre><br />Optional: remove any installed Sublime Text 2 packages:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get remove sublime-text*</code></pre><br /><b>Then, to install Sublime Text 2 stable, use the following command:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install sublime-text</code></pre><br /><b>Or, to install the Sublime Text 2 development package, use:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install sublime-text-dev</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Note: you can't install both the development and stable packages in the same time. Installing one of them will remove the other one.</div>

Sublime Text 2.0 Stable Released - PPA Update

Sublime Text 2 is a cool, TextMate-like text editor that runs on Linux, Windows and Mac OSX. After being in alpha / beta testing for more t...

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