aptsources.distro.NoDistroTemplateException: Error: could not find a distribution template for Raspbian/buster

Question

I am trying to install Sublime Text on my raspberry Pi running Raspbian Buster. So i runned this sudo add-apt-repository "ppa:webup8team/sublime-text-3For Sublime Text 2" and get this:

  File "/usr/bin/add-apt-repository", line 95, in <module>
    sp = SoftwareProperties(options=options)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 109, in __init__
    self.reload_sourceslist()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 599, in reload_sourceslist
    self.distro.get_sources(self.sourceslist)    
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/aptsources/distro.py", line 93, in get_sources
    (self.id, self.codename))
aptsources.distro.NoDistroTemplateException: Error: could not find a distribution template for Raspbian/buster

PLease, how do i handle this? I intend to run this later on:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/sublime-text-2
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sublime-text-installer

Answer 1

You are getting the error because the repository you added doesn't know which files go where in Rasbian/buster. However, if you go to https://www.sublimetext.com/download, you will find links to both 32- and 64-bit tarballs of the latest stable build of Sublime Text.

You can expand the archives from the command line (tar jxvf filename.tar.bz2 or tar Jxvf filename.tar.xz) and move the files to wherever you wish - the standard location is /opt/sublime-text.

You may not be able to run the files on the Raspberry Pi, because the processor may not be binary-compatible with Intel processors. Sublime Text is not available in ARM or other processor architecture versions, only Intel.

I would strongly recommend NOT installing ST2, as it is obsolete. ST4 is currently the latest version, and has many improvements over ST3.