Sublime Text 3.1 Released! How to Install it in Ubuntu 18.04

Sublime Text source code editor 3.1 was released a day ago lots of improvements for high DPI support.

Sublime Text 3.1 release highlights:

• Windows 10/8.1 per-monitor DPI settings for handling mixed monitor configurations and on-the-fly DPI switching
• Lots of improvements for high DPI support on all platforms, including 8k monitor and @3x texture support
• Ligature support, with controls for customizing OpenType features and stylistic sets
• Improved text rendering on Windows, now respecting ClearType tuning
• Better handling of emojis in the editor control
• A new color scheme format based on JSON
• Improved selection rendering with expanded customization via color schemes
• Syntax definitions for Git file formats to allow Sublime Text to be a better core.editor
• Highlighting of fenced code blocks in Markdown
• Lots of TC39-track features have been added to the JavaScript syntax
• Goto References to augment Goto Definition
• An improved Command Palette that can accept arbitrary user input and complex interactions
• Expanded options for filtering files and folders from the sidebar
• Improved handling of filesystem notifications and symlinks
• Significantly improved memory usage – up to 30% in some cases
• Lots of little performance improvements and bug fixes

How to Install Sumlime Text 3.1 in Ubuntu:

For Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.10, and Ubuntu 18.04, you can easily install Sublime Text 3.1 (build 3170) via Ubuntu Software:

This is a snap (universal Linux package format) package maintained by the community.

For those who dislike the snap package, and you can install Sublime Text 3 from its official apt repository by reading this tutorial.