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Last time I took you through installing Sublime Text 2 on Linux Mint . The trouble with doing the install the manual way as I showed and not using sudo apt-get is that you don't get the neat integration into the operating system so you wont find Sublime Text in your Menu and if you search it wont be there yet. Right click on the "Menu" in the bottom left and choose "Edit Menu". You should have something that looks like this: Excellent. On my install, Programming was not yet ticked, so I clicked the checkbox so that the Programming section would show up in my Applications menu. Then on the left hand side, you need to click Programming, or whichever other category you want to put Sublime Text into and then on the right, click the "New Item" and fill it in as follows: If you followed along when I installed Sublime Text, you aliased subl to launch Sublime Text. Clicking where the icon is will let you choose the icon location. I used the 48x48 icon...

So, continuing on from installing RVM on Linux Mint and installing Ruby on Rails on Linux Mint , I want to give a brief rundown on installing Sublime Text 2 on Linux Mint, though in fact, this will work for pretty much any Linux version, so if you're running Ubuntu it will work as well. If you aren't using Sublime Text 2 , I suggest you download it and give it a go - it's an awesome editor, especially for Rails and Python development, bringing a Textmate elegance to Linux. It's cross platform too, so if you are jumping between OSX, Linux and Windows, it makes the perfect companion giving you a consistent interface across the various OSs. Don't trust me? Well take a look at what others think about it So, there are two routes here - you can install using the traditional apt-get on Mint. You'll have to add a repository. That's not really my preferred method though. It takes too long to get releases through to the repository so I like to do a manual insta...

Linux Mint has captured my imagination recently, and of course a fresh install means getting my dev environment up and running again. I'm using the cinnamon version and so far things are going well. Everything on my laptop is just working; suspend, all the various function keys. Support out of the box is good. I'm impressed. The experience is soooo much better than the last time I tried a more full featured distro and things got so bad with video drivers crashing and causing my fan to spin up constantly that I ended up going totally minimal with Arch and just a command line. I like arch, but I thought I would give Mint a go. So, now we need to get Ruby, RVM and Rails on the go so we can do some web development. Let's start with RVM. Next time I'll take a crack at installing Rails on Mint First things first - we need curl. My install didn't have it so.....fire up the terminal with Ctrl-Alt-T and type the following sudo apt-get install curl Next up, install RV...