
Some of my friends swear on kate ( sudo apt install kate), others love vscodium, some code::blocks, other spyder, others are vim or emacs or spacemacs users. There's also really a wealth of other, easy to install-and-use code editors. scite also uses the same code editor, and is as minimal as notepad++ ( sudo apt install scite).

I haven't tried it, but if you run the official installer instead of unpacking the portable version, you'd probably even get file associations in your file manager, so that double clicking source code files can open them in notepad++.Īlso note that while I think it's good to use an editor you're used to, there's very similar editors to notepad++ for Linux that you can trivially install directly: geany even uses the same editor component as notepad++! You can install it using sudo apt install geany geany-plugins-common. Just install wine ( sudo apt install wine), download the notepad++ portable, unpack it, and run it with wine. Notepad++ isn't that complex, and supported by wine out of the box. The installation may take some time if you’re installing a snap package for the first time on your Ubuntu machine.Snap can be really useful when you're installing complex software. When prompted to enter a password, provide your user password and hit the Enter key. Then, run the following snap command to install Notepad++: snap install notepad-plus-plus Moving onto the installation of Notepad++ (wine). Read: How to Use Snap to Find and Install Apps on Ubuntu 20.04 If you’d like to know more about it, read our guide on using Snap at the link below. Snap comes as pre-installed on Ubuntu 20.04. In this guide, we will see both the command line method as well as the GUI method to install Notepad++ on Ubuntu 20.04. On Ubuntu 20.04, it’s even easier to set up and install Notepad++ since Snap comes as pre-installed on the latest Ubuntu release. Thankfully, Canonical developed a Snap package for Notepad++ that gets the app running on a Linux machine in one go (with the help of Wine, but without requiring setting up Wine separately). WINE is a compatibility layer that makes running Windows application on Linux possible. Notepad++ can run on any Linux distribution using WINE, in spite of being a native Windows application. 1) Install Notepad++ from the command line Notepad++ is available from the snap store and can be installed by running the following command on the terminal. It supports many programming languages and natural languages. Notepad++ is a free source code editor developed by Don Ho as a powerful replacement for the default Windows notepad application. When you enter Notepad++, a search bar will appear. When you open the Ubuntu Software application, it displays a search icon in the top right corner of its window. Then, go to the search bar and look for Ubuntu software after that, open it. Everything you need to know about installing Notepad++ on a Ubuntu machine Notepad can be installed using Ubuntu’s graphical user interface.
