How to Install Sublime Text 3 using Homebrew cask

Solution 1:

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]

Solution 2:

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:

brew install --cask sublime-text

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.

Solution 3:

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.

Solution 4:

$ brew tap caskroom/cask
$ brew install brew-cask
$ brew tap caskroom/versions
$ brew cask install sublime-text