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Enrique Moreno Tent
Asked: 2015-03-14 11:01:42 +0800 CST

Remove Sublime Text 3 completely

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I want to remove completely Sublime Text 3 from my system. I have tried this:

sudo apt-get purge sublime-text-installer

and the application is gone, but when I install it again...

sudo apt-get install sublime-text-installer

...the themes and the plugins remain installed.

14.04

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I found my own solution. The configuration packages and other data where under $HOME/.config/sublime-text-3. Once I removed that folder, all was golden.

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  2. This is what worked successfully for me:

    First, I removed the sublime text package and any other dependant packages which are no longer needed from my Ubuntu:

    sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove sublime-text-installer

    Then I deleted the configuration and data files of sublime text and it's dependencies from Ubuntu 

    sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove sublime-text-installer

    This is the main output of the last command which I believe interests you more:

    Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 369782 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing sublime-text-installer (3114-2~webupd8~0) ...
Purging configuration files for sublime-text-installer (3114-2~webupd8~0) ...
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  3. The full answer is the combination of both the methods.

    This folder really contains all the Sublime text 3 settings for the current user:

    $HOME/.config/sublime-text-3

    Folders structure may be like this:

    Backup
Cache
Index
Installed Packages
Local
Packages

    But to remove it completely you will need to call:

    sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove sublime-text-installer

    or

    sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove sublime-text-installer

    Then to install again you would call

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