HOW TO INSTALL NOTEPADQQ FREE TEXT EDITOR IN UBUNTU 16.04 – A ALTERNATIVE TO NOTEPAD++
HOW TO INSTALL NOTEPADQQ FREE TEXT EDITOR IN UBUNTU 16.04 – A ALTERNATIVE TO NOTEPAD++
Introduction
In this article we are going to learn How to install Notepadqq free text editor in Ubuntu 16.04. Notepadqq is a open source text editor for Linux related operating system and a nice alternative to popular text editor Notepad++. It’s an light weight and powerful application mainly designed for developers. You can get the Source code of Notepadqq (alternative to Notepad++) application from Github and customize as you want. This application is available for almost all Linux distros and supports 100+ languages.
Here I will show you two method’s by which you can install Notepadqq (alternative to Notepad++) application i.e. Install through PPA Repository or You can also install by downloading the .deb package.
Follow the below steps to install Notepadqq free text editor in Ubuntu 16.04 – a alternative to notepad++
Method : 1
Before start the installation of Notepadqq free text editor application we have to install the official PPA repository for that as it’s not a part of default repository of Ubuntu 16.04. So to install the PPA repository use the below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:notepadqq-team/notepadqq # Install PPA Repository
Notepadqq text editor
More info: https://launchpad.net/~notepadqq-team/+archive/ubuntu/notepadqq
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmp9ltmzz41/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmp9ltmzz41/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: requesting key 63DE9CD4 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmp9ltmzz41/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key 63DE9CD4: public key "Launchpad PPA for Notepadqq Team" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1)
OK
After installing the PPA repository now update the packages & repositories of Ubuntu 16.04 using below command to take effect.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update # Update Packages & Repositories
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/audio-recorder/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/notepadqq-team/notepadqq/ubuntu xenial InRelease [17.5 kB]
Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Get:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/notepadqq-team/notepadqq/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages [932 B]
Fetched 19.8 kB in 1s (10.8 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Now we are ready to install the Notepadqq (alternative to Notepad++). So let’s go ahead and install the same using below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install notepadqq # Install the Package Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: notepadqq-common The following NEW packages will be installed: notepadqq notepadqq-common 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 247 not upgraded. Need to get 1,079 kB of archives. After this operation, 5,809 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y ---> Enter 'y' to continue the installation
As you can see above the Notepadqq free text editor package has been installed successfully. Now to confirm the same use the below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -l notepadqq # Confirm the installed Package
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-====================================-=======================-=======================-=============================================================================
ii notepadqq 1.2.0-1~xenial1 amd64 Notepad++-like editor for Linux
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Now to open the application just type the command notepadqq on shell prompt. Refer the command below.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ notepadqq # Open the Application
NOTEPADQQ FREE TEXT EDITOR
You can also open the Notepadqq (alternative to Notepad++) graphically using Search your computer box. Refer the snapshot below.
OPEN NOTEPADQQ APPLICATION GRAPHICALLY
To uninstall the application use the below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -r notepadqq # Uninstall the Package
(Reading database ... 246691 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing notepadqq (1.2.0-1~xenial1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160824-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Method : 2
You can also install the Notepadqq free text editor by downloading the .deb package. So to download the same use the below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ wget https://launchpadlibrarian.net/340941848/notepadqq_1.2.0-1~xenial1_amd64.deb --2018-03-14 08:20:33-- https://launchpadlibrarian.net/340941848/notepadqq_1.2.0-1~xenial1_amd64.deb Resolving launchpadlibrarian.net (launchpadlibrarian.net)... 91.189.89.228, 91.189.89.229 Connecting to launchpadlibrarian.net (launchpadlibrarian.net)|91.189.89.228|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 349186 (341K) [application/x-debian-package] Saving to: ‘notepadqq_1.2.0-1~xenial1_amd64.deb’ notepadqq_1.2.0-1~xenial1_amd64.deb 100%[=====================================================================================>] 341.00K 347KB/s in 1.0s 2018-03-14 08:20:36 (347 KB/s) - ‘notepadqq_1.2.0-1~xenial1_amd64.deb’ saved [349186/349186]
Post downloading use the below command to install the Notepadqq package.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -i notepadqq_1.2.0-1~xenial1_amd64.deb # Install the Notepadqq Package
This is how we can install Notepadqq free text editor in Ubuntu 16.04 – a alternative to notepad++. If you found this article useful then Like us, Share this post on your preferred Social media, Subscribe our Newsletter OR if you have something to say then feel free to comment on the comment box below.
