How can I use Homebrew cask to install Sublime Text 3? I only see Sublime Text 2 when using Homebrew's search. I even tried tapping homebrew/versions, but no luck.
How to Install Sublime Text 3 using Homebrew cask
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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
]
[edit]: As of 2022-11-07, above is incorrect.
See taylorthurlow's correct answer.

Edit: The command will now install version 4 instead of 3
To install Sublime Text 3 4 run:
brew install --cask sublime-text
reference: https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/sublime-text

As of 12-12-2022 I have just installed sublime-text using:
brew install sublime-text
No issue with working with sublime after the installation. Have just checked this. So I am not sure if you need 'cask' anymore.

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

Please note that brew cask <command>
was deprecated in favor of brew <command> --cask
in Homebrew 2.6.0
. So as of 2021, you can use:
brew install --cask sublime-text

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.
As of late May, 2021, Sublime Text 4 has been released. As a result, the old solution to installing Sublime Text 3 via Homebrew will now install Sublime Text 4 instead. If this is what you actually want, then the following
brew
installation command will install it:Currently, there is no available cask on Homebrew which will allow the installation of Sublime Text 3 instead of Sublime Text 4.
As a side note, Sublime Text 2 is available in the
sublime-text2
cask.Historical note: This question originally was motivated by the fact that the
sublime-text
cask was Sublime Text 2 instead of Sublime Text 3. As of around May 2016, this is no longer the case.