How can I use homebrew cask to install Sublime Text 3? I only see sublime text 2 in the repos. I even tried tapping homebrew/versions, but no luck.
Thanks!
EDIT: Answered by my answer below
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To install Sublime Text 3 run:
brew install --cask sublime-text
reference: https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/sublime-text
$ brew tap caskroom/cask
$ brew install brew-cask
$ brew tap caskroom/versions
$ brew cask install sublime-text
As per latest updates, caskroom packages have moved to homebrew. So try following commands:
brew tap homebrew/cask
brew cask install sublime-text
These 2 terminal commands will be enough for installing sublime.
An update
Turns out now brew cask install sublime-text
installs the most up to date version (e.g. 3) by default and brew cask
is now part of the standard brew
-installation.
I did not have brew cask
installed so I had to install it first,so these were the steps I followed:
brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask
brew tap caskroom/versions
brew cask install sublime-text
brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask
brew tap caskroom/versions
brew cask install sublime-text
Weird how I will struggle with this for days, post on StackOverflow, then figure out my own answer in 20 seconds.
[edited to reflect that the package name is now just sublime-text
, not sublime-text3
]
Source: Stackoverflow.com