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For Ubuntu and most other distributions

Just run the following command in a terminal window:

sudo apt install notepadqq

 


Launchpad PPA

This method is not recommended. Use the above apt or the snap package instead.
PPA address: https://launchpad.net/~notepadqq-team/+archive/notepadqq

To install Notepadqq, simply run the following commands in a terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:notepadqq-team/notepadqq
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install notepadqq

Arch Linux

sudo pacman -S notepadqq

OpenSUSE

sudo zypper in notepadqq

Nix users

nix-env -i notepadqq

Others

Check if Notepadqq is available in your distribution’s repositories. If not, you can build from source. Instructions at: https://github.com/notepadqq/notepadqq.

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User
User
24 days ago

I set the app’s Flatpak to my language only to find that it is a weird mix of French and English. As of now, the Portuguese translation does not make sense to a native reader.

PEPE DEL GAMBA
1 month ago

ME FOLLO AL MAESTRO PEPE

Wesam
Wesam
4 months ago

notepadqq is not launching on Ubuntu even after reinstalling it

pedro
5 months ago

pene de burra

Leo
Leo
1 year ago

in Ubuntu 18.04 text selection as columns wont work holding down the Shift Key
The windows version should do that , but for linux other than Gnome ,how it works?

Last edited 1 year ago by Leo
Carlos
1 month ago
Reply to  Leo

Use Shift+Alt+Mouse instead, it works. No cursor keys managed for vertical selection.

manuel
1 year ago

me pica el huevo

pedro
5 months ago
Reply to  manuel

a mi tmb

manuel
1 year ago

holaaaaaa

manuel
1 year ago

gilipolla

manuel
1 year ago

feo

Krisalex
1 year ago

I would like to share a negative opinion about one feature for otherwise excellent product. Why in the world, you had to add the world’s most needless, and absolutely pointless question?

The file is xx megabytes big, are you sure you want to open it?
Yes i want to open it, obviously, if i am double clicking to open the associated file it is obvious i want to open it.

Can you provide clear and easy to understand, easy to apply steps, how to disable this annoying question?

nex
nex
1 year ago
Why don't they do it with Appimage?
Leandro
Leandro
1 year ago

Please, mac version…

secret
secret
1 year ago

Notepad++ because of the military operation, threatening slogans are being written, I began to be afraid of them! Need an urgent replacement, will you make a release for Windows?

Scott Beamer
1 year ago
Reply to  secret

The dev supports Ukraine. I’m down with that.

Meyers07
Meyers07
1 year ago
Reply to  secret

Geany for now

Leo
Leo
1 year ago
Reply to  Meyers07

what about SciTE?… but can’t find how to select text as column holding down Shift , does Geany do that?

Luiz Cássio De Souza Bezerra

Como colocar em português

GamerHeta
GamerHeta
2 years ago

Windows version?

Zoldiv
Zoldiv
2 years ago
Reply to  GamerHeta

Are you fucking retard?

Romero britto
Romero britto
2 years ago
Reply to  Zoldiv

hahaha can I have an Android version?

devb
devb
2 years ago
Reply to  Zoldiv

what’s fucking wrong with the question?

random drifter
random drifter
2 years ago
Reply to  devb

this is a linux program thats like what windows already has so there would not be a windows version here. for windows google notepad++

Thomas
Thomas
2 years ago
Reply to  devb

notepadqq is an alternative for Notepad ++ and THIS IS THE WINDOWS VERSION :)

Name
Name
2 years ago
Reply to  Zoldiv

Maybe notepad++ is blocked by security asshole.

hanz
hanz
1 year ago
Reply to  Name

security asshole sounds too dark for me. could we use a differnt hole for security?

ThePirate42
ThePirate42
2 years ago
Reply to  GamerHeta

Notepad++

Meyers07
Meyers07
1 year ago
Reply to  GamerHeta

Geany. Different but kinda same.

manolo
2 years ago

no me sirve

annoyed
annoyed
3 years ago

o sorry its snap crap

eddew
eddew
2 years ago
Reply to  annoyed

You do not need snapd to install this app

Yung-jin Lee
Yung-jin Lee
3 years ago

Great app. Thanks for sharing.

heybam
heybam
3 years ago

was successfully installed on Kali Linux 2020.3, thanks!

Dragos
Dragos
3 years ago

Oh, how I missed notepad++ … during my windows days, this was the first application I was installing – yes, even before chrome.

Nick
Nick
3 years ago
Reply to  Dragos

if you don’t mind wine you can have ++ as well

Meyers07
Meyers07
1 year ago
Reply to  Dragos

It’s developer activism and deliberate introduction of bugs so users can see the developer message is terrible…
At least Geany exists in Windows even if I want to use notepadqq

37712
37712
3 years ago

I used to think that notepadqq was the best, but I just found out about Geany, it is a better notepad editor hands down and you dont have to deal with all of the installation issues that u get with notepadqq. I am done with you guys.

37712
37712
3 years ago

whom ever came out with the snap install needs to be fired

Andymon
Andymon
3 years ago

Where i can find plugins?

Antonio Caser
Antonio Caser
3 years ago

“add-apt-repository ppa:notepadqq-team/notepadqq”

NOT WORK to Debian 10 (Buster)

walkingdead
walkingdead
3 years ago
Reply to  Antonio Caser

try to find what is exactly format using for app in Buster. profit 100% if u cant find – so not supporting anymore

37712
37712
3 years ago
Reply to  Antonio Caser

same here, it seems that they are trying to force everyone back in to using the snap installer again. people did not like it the first time, I am not sure why they would want to force people in to it a second time.

petit
petit
3 years ago
Reply to  heybam

gdebi, under debian 10, said : la dépendance ne peut être satisfaite : libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0)
what can i do ? Big thanks !

Bellotto
Bellotto
2 years ago
Reply to  Antonio Caser

Hey! You just need to

sudo apt install software-properties-common

and then redo the command!

Nat
Nat
3 years ago

When I configure
Edit > Indentation > Custom…
Notepadqq applies my settings but doesn’t remember them next time I start. Indentation is back to Default settings.

I tried
Settings > Preferences… –> Languages
and set custom indentation for the “Default” and the programming language I open files but the issue remains.

How can we make Notepadqq remember indentation custom settings?

Lubuntu 18.04 LTS, Notepadqq v1.4.2, installed from PPA

Nat
Nat
3 years ago

I installed Notepadqq v1.4.2 on Lubuntu 18.04 LTS. It runs fine but it created two shortcuts: one in menu://applications/Accessories and another in menu://applications/Programming. If I turn one hidden, the other becomes hidden too. How can I hide or remove one but not both?

Nat
Nat
3 years ago
Reply to  Nat

I managed to solve this issue:

In the file

/home/UserName/.local/share/applications/notepadqq.desktop

replace this line

Categories=Development;Utility;TextEditor;

by

Categories=Development;

kraesch
kraesch
3 years ago

Thanks for the PPA!
I recommend it for erveryone who has problems!

I used the shitty snap version first.
Why is it shit?
1. It takes about 5 (real) seconds to start (a text editor starting from a NVMe LOL)
2. The frames look like Windows 95
3. The mouse Coursor changes in the notepad, just looks really ugly
4. Permission Denied issue…..

Stef
Stef
3 years ago
Reply to  kraesch

This is because Snap is shit, not notepadqq.

Dean
Dean
3 years ago

Just installed it. cant find it in the system? Where is it intsalled to? I want to open a YML file but I dont get an option to use notepadqq

Kornelio
Kornelio
3 years ago
Reply to  Dean

You can see where any binary is installed with the command “whereis”

On your terminal type “whereis notepadqq” and press enter. The binary is most probably at your /usr/bin/ directory.

Andy
3 years ago

nice thanks

jul
jul
3 years ago

saludos .. tiene sintaxis para Asciidoc???

Eneko
Eneko
3 years ago

I too just uninstalled snap version because of the “permission denied” problem and installed the ppa version.

Brandon
Brandon
3 years ago

Flat pack stops me from launching with Filezilla, and many other programs. So I’m forced download files, and work with the locally.
Flatpack is a stupid attempt at idiot proofing linux installations. Works great if your installing things like minecraft… Not good for productivity.

jury
jury
3 years ago

I have been beaten. Beaten by tab setting. I surely do not understand how the tabulation setting works/should work in notepadqq, but I tried many different settings and nothing changed. I need to set tab to 8 characters, no matter the language (especially that I need it for some exotic language not being on that list). So how can I set tab to 8 characters?

evergreen
evergreen
3 years ago

Hello, exist the possibility to find a source with the current binary Notepadqq for Slackware? on other hand I would like to compile the source. but I couldn’t in Slackware , I got several errors

www.MKRD.info
3 years ago

FOLKS, MANY ARE STRUGGLING WITH MULTIPLE ISSUE (ARCHAIC ICON LOOK, PERMISSION ISSUES FOR ME, ETC, ETC, ETC). ALL OF THAT IS DUE TO TRYING TO USE THE SNAP PACKAGE AS SUGGESTED. TO HELL THIS SNAP PACKAGE, AND FLATPAK WITH IT!!! INSTALL FROM PPA AS YOU NORMALLY WOULD. APPLICATIONS ARE SMALLEST IN SIZE AND WORK BEST WHEN INSTALLED FROM PPA.
DO NOT USE FLATPAK. IT IS LIKE GOING BACK TO MICROSOFT C++ REDISTRIBUTABLES. IT LEAVES A HUNDRED OF PACKAGES ON YOUR SYSTEM AND OCCUPYIES GIGABYTES OF DISK SPACE FOR TRIVIAL APPLICATIONS!!!
SNAP HAS SIMILAR ISSUES. FOR ME, EVERYTHING WAS A “PERMISSION DENIED”, COULD DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING UNTIL I REMOVED SNAP VERSION AND REPLACED WITH PPA VERSION.
FOR THE ABSOLUTE IN SPEED AND SIZE, COMPILING FROM SOURCE IS RESERVED FOR VERY ADVANCED USERS.

evergreen
evergreen
3 years ago
Reply to  www.MKRD.info

I am agree with you, FLATPAK and SNAP are not a conventional in the linux environment and such thing are creating struggles because people is dealing to choose an installation between PPA or another source

Adolf_Trump
Adolf_Trump
3 years ago
Reply to  www.MKRD.info

Amen, brother. Bumped into problems a couple of months ago. Ubuntu pushed chromium into snap and stopped supporting it in apt repos -> can’t open hidden folders in it anymore -> a bit of googling + trying to reinstall it in classic confinement -> installs just fine -> BUT AFTER INSTALLATION still says that it could give a flying fuck about my flags, options, root privileges or anything else on that matter -> ok fuck it, i’ll use chrome instead -> found out there’s a newer versions of notepadqq on snap -> installed it -> no access to hidden files -> trying to reinstall in different confinements with different commands, option placement etc. for 3 billion times -> every time it installs (i.e. eats my ssd resources) but ignores confinement options, so nothing’s changing -> wait, wtf is this drive activity? -> iotop + fatrace -f W -> THIS PIECE OF SHIT AUTOUPDATES ON ITS OWN LIKE WIN10!!! -> sudo apt purge snap* -> notepadqq github page -> git clone…..
Flatpak isn’t as bad, but ye, the way it works, you’re still supposed to install some crap on top of what you want, and sometimes it takes gigs of space

DanielS
DanielS
4 years ago

How do I install portuguese accent marks?
Like these é ó ô â ão and etc

thanks for any help

steve
steve
4 years ago

since there’s no instructions on how to actually launch the editor, I used ‘snap run notepaddqq’. I get the console error below re: could not open display.

steve
steve
4 years ago

could not connect to display :12.0

Adalbert
Adalbert
4 years ago

I installed new version 1.4.8 on my new Linux Mint 19.3 last week and was surprised to see that all icons are black and white:comment image. It’s especially annoying in file tabs because I can’t see which files have unsaved changes.

Is this normall? Can I change?

Angelo
Angelo
4 years ago

Just installed on Xubuntu 19.10 and Notepadqq has awful windows. It makes me fell as I was using a Windows 95 software. It does not appears as the images on this site. Something is wrong. I remeber to use notepadqq in Xubuntu 18.10 and the windows were good. I dont know if it was the snap installation that messed up. I am almost unistalling notepadqq, let’s see how much time I will use as it is now, but right now almost giving up.

Maz-V
Maz-V
4 years ago
Reply to  Angelo

yes like me the interface is bad on ubuntu 19.10

equintero
4 years ago

Hi, I installed OK, but when i apply some themes (like dark mode) => settings -> preference -> apparence -> and choose any (random color scheme) -> apply
And close notepadqq and again lauch notepadqq, the color scheme is the same default. Why? Is a bug?
using: Linux Mint 19.3
notepadqq version 1.4.2
qt version 5.9.5

Please any help.

raoul
raoul
4 years ago
Paul
4 years ago

I’m testing nqq as default code editor. It looks great, but i can’t acces to my programm library in /var/www/html/. I guessed it is a permisson-problem and changed mod of /var/www to 755 and ownership to ‘myuser’ but as the only result nqq didn’t start at all. Is there any config-file we could define or include the desired working directory?
Using Ubuntu19.10 and Win7 in Dualboot.

Hako
Hako
4 years ago

Using 18.04 64bit, with snap installation I can only use my home folder, no others. Then i found a flathub version on Ubuntu software which works.

jean
jean
4 years ago
Reply to  Hako

beach

lyons guo
lyons guo
4 years ago

i closed the tool bar and menu bar but i don’t know how to show them, could you tell me? Thank you!

Alberto
Alberto
4 years ago

Hello, thanks for the awesome software. After the big linux kernel update the snap install no longer works (I’m on debian stretch linux 10 buster, gnome 3.30.2, i5 Skylake GT2) : I used Notepadqq under the X11 system, after the kernel update Notepad broken, then I reinstalled it via snap, but snap is missing the Wayland plugin.
The installation was successful, but if I run the application it says:
This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin “wayland-egl”.

Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, xcb.

Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

I found this topic on snap forum, and it may be related: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/problem-launching-qt-snaps-in-wayland/7055

Can you please fix it with a new release? Thank you!

andrey
andrey
4 years ago

–classic not work in stable snap chanel: if i try install via stable chanel i have this error
“Warning: flag –classic ignored for strictly confined snap notepadqq”

–classic work in edge snap chanel.

if go to store page https://snapcraft.io/notepadqq

we see recommends of snapcraft to install:

latest/stable: sudo snap install notepadqq
or
latest/edge: sudo snap install notepadqq –edge –classic

ubuntu 18.04

Daniele, please fix work –classic flag in stable snap chanel

andrey
andrey
4 years ago

Hi!
try
sudo snap install –classic –edge notepadqq
works well

ilker17
ilker17
4 years ago

hi,

macos release versiyon pls.

Serdar
Serdar
4 years ago

Fedora user original rpm install: sudo dnf install notepatqq

Snapd is a terrible project, slows down your computer and turns it into a dump. Don’t use Snapd!

Akif
Akif
4 years ago
Reply to  Serdar

Fedora rpm install: sudo dnf install notepadqq
Thanks

kris
kris
4 years ago
Reply to  Serdar

sudo yum install notepadqq 14:05:56
Last metadata expiration check: 0:58:21 ago on Mon 04 Nov 2019 13:08:01 GMT.
Error:
Problem: conflicting requests
– nothing provides nodejs-archiver needed by notepadqq-1.4.8-6.fc31.x86_64
(try to add ‘–skip-broken’ to skip uninstallable packages)