Ubuntu – Disable “A new version of Sublime Text is available, download now?” in Sublime 3 (stable channel)

sublime-textupdates

I am using package manager to handle updates without manual reinstallation.

I installed Sublime as recommended in How do I install Sublime Text 2/3? with:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/sublime-text-3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sublime-text-installer

My user settings, after change recommended in https://forum.sublimetext.com/t/disable-update-available-pop-up/1381 are following:

{
"font_size": 11,
"ignored_packages":
[
"Vintage"
],
"tab_size": 3,
"update_check": false
}

Despite this on every Sublime Text start I am attacked by "A new version of Sublime Text is available, download now?"

How can I get rid of this obnoxious popup?

I know that it goes away after ppa is updated and I apply upgrade – but after every release I have about week of pointless, unremovable message spam.

Best Answer

According to https://github.com/SublimeTextIssues/Core/issues/1206#issuecomment-221630273 this is one of functions that is removed from evaluation version of Sublime Text.

"update_check": false

in user settings has no effect in an unpaid version.

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Ubuntu – Run Sublime Text 3 and check version

The command to start Sublime Text:

subl

The command to see its version:

subl --version

Ubuntu – How to change Python version in Sublime Text 3

Changing alias just changes the default python version when python as a command is called. But Sublime uses path /usr/bin/python when building python source. I strongly suggest you to roll back the alias definition.

Now to build your code using python3, you can either install python-is-python3 package which is available on 20.04 and higher to invoke python3 using python or create a new build system and set that build system as default.

The package python-is-python3 should be avoided if there are some existing packages which depend on Python 2. If you don't have such packages, install the above said package using

sudo apt install python-is-python3

Alternatively, to add a new build system,

Go to Tools→Build System→New Build System

A new tab will be opened to create a new build system. Paste this

{
  "cmd": ["/usr/bin/python3", "-u", "$file"],
  "file_regex": "^ ]*File \"(...*?)\", line ([0-9]*)",
  "selector": "source.python"
}

Press Ctrl+S to save it. Rename it to Python3.
Now to make Python3 as default, go to Tools→Build System and select newly created build system, here Python3.
(optional) Create a new .py file to check whether it has been changed and paste this
```
import sys
print("Sublime is using: ", sys.version)
```
Build your source using Ctrl+B

If the output is like

Sublime is using:  3.6.7 (default, Oct 22 2018, 11:32:17) 
[GCC 8.2.0]
[Finished in 0.1s]

That means that code is built using python3.

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