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sublime text: manually install package control

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.

Solution
    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.