uninstall sublime text 3 on ubuntu 12.04

Question

As the sublime text 3 beta has been released and opened to the public I decided to upgrade to it. Turns out that most of the plugins I generally use are not ready to use yet and it has slowed me down. I wanted to uninstall it and resume using sublime text, but haven't find any method of doing so apart from the revert, which would just reset the version 3.

I am waiting on any suggestions.

EDIT I forgot to add that my sublime text 2 was not uninstalled so they both run concurrently only now whenever I try to open sublime text 2 it is shut down automatically after few seconds.

Solution 1

Option 1

If you installed sublime-text-3 with apt-get, based on this article:

http://www.webupd8.org/2013/07/sublime-text-3-ubuntu-ppa-now-available.html

With these lines:

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

You could remove your installation:

sudo apt-get remove sublime-text-installer

Option 2

If you installed Sublime Text 3 from a .deb package which was downloaded directly from Sublime Text page: http://www.sublimetext.com/3

And you have used this command for installation

sudo dpkg -i sublime-text_build-3047_amd64.deb

Or you just double clicked on it and Ubuntu Software Center installed it...

So, in this case:

sudo dpkg -r sublime-text

But you have to reinstall Sublime Text 2 in each case... Your configurations are in different folders, so your previous settings which belongs to Sublime Text 2, will be still there.

Solution 2

Base on answer by szine

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

At some point you’d want to be able to call Sublime Text from the Terminal by just typing “sublime”. To do that, we’ll just create a symbolic link in “/usr/bin” like thus:

sudo ln -s /opt/sublime_text/sublime_text /usr/bin/sublime

Solution 3

To remove SUBLIME TEXT from your machine:

Go To Terminal and type:

sudo apt remove sublime-text

this worked for me....