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[Question] How to install ST3 on WSL? It gives this error

I tried installing

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/sublime-text-3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sublime-text-installer

but it gives error (full error below)

... (skipping lines that were ok)
Setting up sublime-text-installer (3114-2~webupd8~0) ...
cp: cannot create regular file ‘/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/’: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing package sublime-text-installer (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 sublime-text-installer
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I created /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/ and reinstalled (after purging) but still same error with that /apps/ dir even existing this time.

I have vcXsrv running and can run xcalc.

$ sudo apt-get -y install sublime-text-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
sublime-text-installer
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/9,482 B of archives.
After this operation, 26.6 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously unselected package sublime-text-installer.
(Reading database ... 27606 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../sublime-text-installer_3114-2~webupd8~0_all.deb ...
Downloading...
--2016-08-27 06:49:26-- https://download.sublimetext.com/sublime_text_3_build_3114_x64.tar.bz2
Resolving download.sublimetext.com (download.sublimetext.com)... 104.236.0.104
Connecting to download.sublimetext.com (download.sublimetext.com)|104.236.0.104|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 9328481 (8.9M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘sublime_text_3_build_3114_x64.tar.bz2’
0K ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ 33% 707K 9s
3072K ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ 67% 1.03M 4s
6144K ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ...... 100% 1.04M=10s
2016-08-27 06:49:38 (906 KB/s) - ‘sublime_text_3_build_3114_x64.tar.bz2’ saved [9328481/9328481]
Download done.
Removing outdated cached downloads...
sublime_text_3/
sublime_text_3/Packages/
sublime_text_3/Packages/Pascal.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/Matlab.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/Go.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/Graphviz.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/Haskell.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/Clojure.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/TCL.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/C++.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/C#.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/Textile.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/Text.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/XML.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/D.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/Lisp.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/Objective-C.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/Vintage.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/Groovy.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/Theme - Default.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/LaTeX.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/Color Scheme - Default.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/Python.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/R.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/PHP.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/ActionScript.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/OCaml.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/Language - English.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/Rails.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/Regular Expressions.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/Erlang.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/Batch File.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/Markdown.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/ASP.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/Perl.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/Ruby.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/Makefile.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/Default.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/Scala.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/YAML.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/JavaScript.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/ShellScript.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/Lua.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/Diff.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/RestructuredText.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/SQL.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/CSS.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/Rust.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/Java.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/AppleScript.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/Packages/HTML.sublime-package
sublime_text_3/changelog.txt
sublime_text_3/sublime_text
sublime_text_3/python3.3.zip
sublime_text_3/plugin_host
sublime_text_3/crash_reporter
sublime_text_3/sublime_text.desktop
sublime_text_3/Icon/
sublime_text_3/Icon/16x16/
sublime_text_3/Icon/16x16/sublime-text.png
sublime_text_3/Icon/32x32/
sublime_text_3/Icon/32x32/sublime-text.png
sublime_text_3/Icon/128x128/
sublime_text_3/Icon/128x128/sublime-text.png
sublime_text_3/Icon/48x48/
sublime_text_3/Icon/48x48/sublime-text.png
sublime_text_3/Icon/256x256/
sublime_text_3/Icon/256x256/sublime-text.png
sublime_text_3/sublime.py
sublime_text_3/sublime_plugin.py
Unpacking sublime-text-installer (3114-2~webupd8~0) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54ubuntu1.1) ...
Setting up sublime-text-installer (3114-2~webupd8~0) ...
cp: cannot create regular file ‘/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/’: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing package sublime-text-installer (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
sublime-text-installer
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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