I installed sublime text on my Ubuntu 11.10 box but I had some troubled loading external python modules:

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loaded 937 snippets
>>> import distutils
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named distutils

This is how I solved it:

Edited ~/.local/share/applications/sublime.desktop Especially this line:

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Exec="/home/leon/Software/bin/sublime" %U

/home/leon/Software/bin/sublime contains this:

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#!/bin/bash
cd /usr/lib/python2.7
/home/leon/Software/SublimeText2/sublime_text

Then I installed some excellent plugins:

• http://wbond.net/sublimepackages/packagecontrol
• https://github.com/Kronuz/SublimeCodeIntel
• https://github.com/JulianEberius/SublimeRope
• https://bitbucket.org/sublimator/sublime-2-zencoding