In this article, we will have explained the necessary steps to install and configure Sublime Text on CentOS 8. Before continuing with this tutorial, make sure you are logged in as a user with sudo privileges. All the commands in this tutorial should be run as a non-root user.
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Install Sublime Text on CentOS 8
Step 1. The first command will update the package lists to ensure you get the latest version and dependencies.
sudo dnf install epel-release sudo dnf update
Step 2. Installing Sublime Text on the CentOS system.
Now we import the Sublime Text 3 GPG key:
sudo rpm -v --import https://download.sublimetext.com/sublimehq-rpm-pub.gpg
After the import, add the stable channel repository to CentOS 8:
sudo wget -P /etc/yum.repos.d/ https://download.sublimetext.com/rpm/stable/x86_64/sublime-text.repo
Once done, you can install Sublime Text running the following command:
sudo dnf install sublime-text
Step 3. Launch Sublime Text on the CentOS system.
The installation part is done, the application is started using a command-line interface or from the Desktop environment applications launch section:
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That’s all you need to do to install Sublime Text on CentOS 8. I hope you find this quick tip helpful. For further reading on Sublime Text, please refer to their official knowledge base. If you have questions or suggestions, feel free to leave a comment below.