sublime text: manually install package control

Question

I cannot use the simple installation code because a proxy blocks my way out. Unfortunately, I just don't get the instructions on the webpage.

1. Click the Preferences > Browse Packages… menu
2. Browse up a folder and then into the Installed Packages/ folder
3. Download Package Control.sublime-package and copy it into the Installed Packages/ directory
4. Restart Sublime Text

What exactly does 2. mean? I guess I literally don't understand what "Browse up a folder and then into..." means.

I did click on the Browse Packages menu and used the popup explorer window to create a folder in my documents directory called Installed Packages . But what's next? Since I am just in a regular Explorer window, it I don't see how sublime now knows about this folder.

Answer 1

1. In Sublime Text, click the Preferences > Browse Packages… menu

• this opens Windows Explorer in the path %AppData%\\Roaming\\Sublime Text 3\\Packages .

2. Browse up a folder

• go up one folder level, the equivalent of cd .. in the command prompt. So basically, you want to be in %AppData%\\Roaming\\Sublime Text 3 .

  

  You can do this using the breadcrumbs in the address bar - using the above image as a guide, click on Sublime Text 3 . Alternatively, press Backspace to go up a folder level. (Normally it will go back one history level, but in this case there is no history because it is a new Explorer window, so it will go up a directory in the folder hierarchy.)

and then into the Installed Packages folder

• Double click on the Installed Packages folder to navigate into it.

3. Download Package Control.sublime-package and copy it into the Installed Packages directory

• So you will have a file called Package Control.sublime-package in the %AppData%\\Roaming\\Sublime Text 3\\Installed Packages folder.

4. Restart Sublime Text

• Close ST and launch it again.

Answer 2

For Mac users, for No. 2, you'll most likely see this. That is the Packages file

To be able to browse up a folder and view the Installed Packages:

Then from there, download using the link and put it in the installed package folder, there you go!