I believe this is a fix of the sublime-won't-start problem: link.
Basically what it does is - it reverts the Sublime to its initial state by removing your data (and configuration) folder, which is in one of the following paths, depending on your operating system:
- OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2
- Windows: %APPDATA%\Sublime Text 2
- Linux: ~/.config/sublime-text-2
So you just exit Sublime editor, delete the data folder (or back it up somewhere, for future needs) and then restart Sublime.
That will make Sublime work again - so then you can try redoing your steps and see what actually went wrong. At least it worked that way for me.
I'd suggest re-installing Sublime Text from scratch. I highly recommend using Sublime Text 3, as it has many new features and bug fixes that aren't in ST2, and many plugins available through Package Control are moving to ST3-only versions to take advantage of the additional features. Also, ST3 is available as a .deb for Ubuntu, making installation a 1-step process.
To install ST3, go to the download page and select Ubuntu 64-bit or Ubuntu 32-bit, depending on your system. After downloading, go to your Downloads directory in your terminal and run
sudo dpkg -i sublime-text_build-3059_amd64.deb
or
sudo dpkg -i sublime-text_build-3059_i386.deb
depending on the version you downloaded. It will install everything in /opt/sublime_text, will place a sublime_text.desktop file in /usr/share/applications (and put an icon in the Unity launcher, IIRC), and will also create /usr/bin/subl for starting Sublime from the command line.
If for some reason you absolutely need to use ST2, then reinstall by following these steps:
- run
sudo rm -r /opt/sublime_text_2 to remove the old directory.
- Go to http://www.sublimetext.com/2 and download either the
Linux 32-bit or Linux 64-bit file, depending on your system.
In your terminal, determine the name of the file you downloaded (either Sublime Text 2.0.2.tar.bz2 or Sublime Text 2.0.2x64.tar.bz2) and run
tar jxvf "Sublime Text 2...tar.bz2"
to unpack the archive and create a directory named Sublime Text 2.
Run
sudo mv "Sublime Text 2" /opt/sublime_text_2
to move the directory to the proper location and rename it to something without spaces.
Double-check that /usr/local/bin is in your PATH by running
echo $PATH
then create a subl shortcut by running
sudo ln -s /opt/sublime_text_2/sublime_text /usr/local/bin/subl
You should now be able to start Sublime correctly from the command line.
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update 2020-06-27:
gksuis deprecated and has been removed for security concerns. see I need an equivalent of gksu in 18.04long story short:
note that the
sudo -His simple enough but it suffers the same security issues asgksu. better option (for reasons beyond my understanding) would bepkexec. there's alsoadmin://protocol but it didn't work for me with sublime.