Sublime-Text not able to install in Fedora 43

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2 days ago, I installed Fedora 43 via RC-1.6 ISO. It was a new installation. Since then, I try to install Sublime-Text from its own repo and from RPM file. The following error appears.

$ sudo dnf install sublime-text
Updating and loading repositories:
RPM Fusion for Fedora 43 - Nonfree - Steam                                        100% |   2.7 KiB/s |  12.0 KiB |  00m04s
Fedora 43 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64                                          100% |   1.9 KiB/s |   5.8 KiB |  00m03s
Sublime Text - x86_64 - Stable                                                    100% |   2.8 KiB/s |   3.8 KiB |  00m01s
1Password Stable Channel                                                          100% |   1.8 KiB/s |   4.0 KiB |  00m02s
Fedora 43 - x86_64 - Updates                                                      100% | 337.4 KiB/s |   2.7 MiB |  00m08s
Fedora 43 - x86_64                                                                100% |   1.1 MiB/s |  35.4 MiB |  00m32s
Repositories loaded.
Package                                 Arch       Version                                 Repository                  Size
Installing:
sublime-text                           x86_64     4200-1                                  sublime-text            51.8 MiB

Transaction Summary:
Installing:         1 package

Total size of inbound packages is 20 MiB. Need to download 20 MiB.
After this operation, 52 MiB extra will be used (install 52 MiB, remove 0 B).
Is this ok [Y/n]:
[1/1] sublime-text-0:4200-1.x86_64                                                 100% | 119.6 KiB/s |  19.7 MiB |  02m49s

[1/1] Total                                                                        100% | 119.6 KiB/s |  19.7 MiB |  02m49s
Running transaction
Transaction failed: Rpm transaction failed.

package sublime-text-4200-1.x86_64 does not verify: no digest

Tried to install Sublime-Text in the Live-System F43 and got the same error. Then I tried in Live-System F42 and had no issues. So, it must be an issue with the new Fedora 43.

I know from the developer that it could be an issue with the signing key used.

Is there a possibility to install without checking the signing key? I already tried the global option --no-gpgchecks for DNF, but it didn’t help.

Any idea what I could do to get Sublime-Text installed? Yes, I could install via Flathub, but I want to use the repo version of the app.

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Looks like it’s already been removed from F42 repos:

┌─🎩 lurcher /usr/lib/firmware🔒
├─
└─➜ uname -a                                                                                                                                                                                                                      12:31 Tue 28-Oct
Linux lurcher 6.17.4-200.fc42.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sun Oct 19 18:47:49 UTC 2025 x86_64 GNU/Linux

┌─🎩 lurcher /usr/lib/firmware🔒
├─
└─➜ sudo dnf install sublime-text                                                                                                                                                                                                 12:32 Tue 28-Oct
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Failed to resolve the transaction:
No match for argument: sublime-text
You can try to add to command line:
  --skip-unavailable to skip unavailable packages

I can therefore only assume that the package it utterly broken, and given that it apparently did not contain a digest then it couldn’t be verified as being genuine or even intact.

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I think it was never there, and OP was getting it from a third-party repo?

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Ahhh - I completed glossed over the Sublime Text - x86_64 - Stable .

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Yes. Sublime-Text is using its own repo. You have to add the GPG key and the repo to be able to install Sublime-Text.

Linux Package Manager Repositories

But I also tried downloading and installing the RPM file from Download website. In Fedora 42 there are no issues installing the package. So it seems like that there is something different in Fedora 43.

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Sounds good, @yuntaz ! :slight_smile:

Where do I have to put this? Tried it as a global option for DNF, but it wasn’t recognized as a known argument. :thinking:

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Yeah, that flag is confusing since it’s an rpm flag. Does it work if you use rpm -i --nosignature <PKG>?

You can also import the Sublime Text GPG key from that website. it should work once the key is enrolled.

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I imported the GPG key via sudo rpm -v --import https://download.sublimetext.com/sublimehq-rpm-pub.gpg.

Same issue …

$ sudo rpm -i --nosignature sublime-text-4200-1.x86_64.rpm
package sublime-text-4200-1.x86_64 does not verify: no digest

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sudo rpm -i --nodigest /path/to/package.rpm
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It worked! I was able to install Sublime-Text! Great!

Will my installation be updated via repo I added? Or do I have to update the package by myself now?

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What was the path to the .rpm file? I cannot find the thing to save my life!

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Hi, the RPM file should be in your downloads folder, usually located at ~/Downloads/.

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Yeah. That’s reasonable!

Fortunately, I checked there before asking here. No dice.

I was hoping by asking the person who has had success that they would be able to tell me what the path to this specific .rpm file was.

Of course, if anyone else knows, I’m all ears.

Thanks for the response!

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Use dnf download sublime-text , the file should be in your home directory

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Had to dig a bit to find where --downloadonly saves packages - depends whether sudo is used or not, but this should cover both cases:

dnf install sublime-text sublime-merge --downloadonly
sudo rpm -ivh --nodigest  /var/cache/libdnf5/sublime-text-*/packages/*rpm ~/.cache/libdnf5/sublime-text-*/packages/*rpm
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Reinstalled Fedora 43 yesterday. When trying to install Sublime-Text via Sublime repo, I got the known error message.

Then I used your command to install the rpm from cache folder. It worked like a charm. :+1:

sudo rpm -ivh --nodigest /var/cache/libdnf5/sublime-text-*/packages/*rpm

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I had many problems when I migrated from Ubuntu to Fedora.

And the Snap and Flatpack are outdated.

Because of it I made this little utility to help me to install and keep updated:

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Just want to let you know that the issue was fixed by the developers of Sublime-Text. Installing via official sublime-repo should be possible now.

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