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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.

bumblebee
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  1. In Sublime Text, click the Preferences > Browse Packages… menu
  • this opens Windows Explorer in the path %AppData%\Roaming\Sublime Text 3\Packages.
  1. 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.

    Packages folder

    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.
  1. 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.
  1. Restart Sublime Text
  • Close ST and launch it again.
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  • Ah, "browse up" as in "cd ..". That was the part I missed. Thanks a million! – bumblebee Aug 05 '16 at 11:16
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    On today's date (2019-03-11) the link on [packagecontrol.io](https://packagecontrol.io/installation) refers to a .zip file with the name of `Package Control.zip`. By changing the name to and file tipe to: `Package Control.sublime-package` it worked for me. Do not extract the .zip, change the name and file ending and then put it into `%AppData%\Roaming\Sublime Text 3\Installed Packages` – Emir Husic Mar 11 '19 at 11:35
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For Mac users, for No. 2, you'll most likely see this. That is the Packages file

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

The installed packages file

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

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