The installation may take some time if you’re installing a snap package for the first time on your Ubuntu machine.This worked perfectly for me and it later survived an upgrade from Ubuntu 16.4.3 to 18.4.1 no problem. 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. 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. Everything you need to know about installing Notepad++ on a Ubuntu machine

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