This quick beginner’s guide would help you to install Notepad++ in Ubuntu, Fedora.
Notepad++ is a very popular free developer-friendly text editor and primarily popular in Windows systems. However, you can easily install this in Linux systems thanks to snap.
It is very user friendly, supports multiple programming languages (syntax highlighting, etc), and has a very low memory footprint. That means it will not be heavy for your system. You can use Notepad++ as a simple text editor as well for quickly taking notes, comparing data, displaying data, and various use cases. If you are a Linux user, you are not left out. It is available as a snap executable that you can directly install and run.
How to Install Notepad++ in Ubuntu, Linux Mint based systems
If you are running the latest Ubuntu, Linux Mint; snap should be installed already. If not, run below command first to install snap in your system:
sudo apt install snapd
After installation, run below command from the terminal to install Notepad++.
sudo snap install notepad-plus-plus
Once installed, search it from the application menu and run.
How to Install Notepad++ in Fedora
In Fedora, first, enable snap by running below command in terminal:
sudo dnf install snapd
Note: You should do a reboot after completion of the above command to make snap installed properly in Fedora.
And followed by the below command to install notepad++.
sudo snap install notepad-plus-plus
Updating Notepad++ as snap
If there is a new version of Notepad++ and you have installed as snap, it would automatically be updated. As snapd aka snap daemon checks for updates 4 times a day. However, you can check for snap updates using the below command – this would check and update all of your snap applications automatically.
snap refresh
So, this is how you can install and use Notepadd+ in Linux systems.