Installing Notepad++ on Ubuntu 22.04 – A Comprehensive Guide

Notepad++ is a popular open-source text and code editor that is highly extensible and supports several programming languages. While it was originally designed for Windows, Notepad++ can also be installed on Linux systems like Ubuntu 22.04 using Snap.

In this comprehensive guide, we will walk through the entire process of installing, setting up and using Notepad++ on an Ubuntu 22.04 system step-by-step.

Prerequisites

Before installing Notepad++, make sure that your Ubuntu 22.04 system meets the following requirements:

• Snap is installed. To check, run snap --version on the terminal.
• Snap core is installed. Check with snap list.
• Your system is fully updated. Run sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade.

If Snap is not already installed, run the following command to install it:

sudo apt install snapd

Step 1 – Install Notepad++ Using Snap

With the prerequisites met, installing Notepad++ on Ubuntu using Snap is very easy.

Simply run the following command on your terminal:

sudo snap install notepad-plus-plus

This will install the latest version of Notepad++ from the Snap store. The whole process only takes a few seconds to complete.

Step 2 – Launch Notepad++

Once installed successfully, you can launch Notepad++ by running:

notepad-plus-plus

This will open up the Notepad++ text editor with all the features and plug-ins ready to use.

As you can see in the screenshot above, Notepad++ offers a tabbed interface, syntax highlighting for multiple languages, line numbers and other features that are useful for coding.

You can now start using it to edit text files, source code, YAML, JSON and hundreds of other file formats right away.

Step 3 – Updating and Removing Notepad++

A couple handy commands to know when using Snap packages like Notepad++:

• To update Notepad++ to the latest version, run:
  sudo snap refresh notepad-plus-plus
• To remove / uninstall Notepad++ completely, use:
  
  sudo snap remove notepad-plus-plus

And that‘s it! Installing this popular text editor on Ubuntu 22.04 is now super simple by leveraging the Snap system.

Customizing Notepad++

While Notepad++ works great out-of-the-box, you can also customize it significantly to suit your specific needs as a developer.

Here are some quick customization you can do:

• Install plugins from the plugin manager
• Change editor color themes
• Configure keyboard shortcuts
• Adjust preferences and settings

And many more advanced customizations. Feel free to tweak Notepad++ to optimize your workflow!

Conclusion

In this step-by-step guide, you learned how to fully install Notepad++ on the latest Ubuntu 22.04 LTS using Snap, launch the text editor, update or remove it, and customize it to your needs as a developer.

Let me know in the comments if you have any questions!