Written by Rahul, Updated on May 29, 2020
Notepad is one of the most popular text editor between Windows users. It provides a large number of options to work with it including the syntax highlighting. This application is written on C and uses pure Win32 API and STL. It keeps smaller program size and faster executing with lower CPU uses.
This tutorial will help you to install Notepad on your Fedora system using snap packages.
Prerequisites
- Fedora system with Desktop access
- A sudo privileged account access
Step 1 – Install Snapd
Snapd is an package manager application popular between among Linux users. A snap package is self contained package including the dependencies. Run below command to install Snapd deamon on your Fedora system.
sudo dnf install snapd
Next create a symbolic link to complete the installation on your system.
sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
Now, reboot your system to complete the installation. You can simply logout and login back to apply changes.
Step 2 – Install Notepad on Fedora
Notepad runs over the WINE platform, which provides compatibility for the Windows application on Unix-like operating systems.
We use snap package manager to install Notepad , which also install all the required dependency for running it on Fedora system. To install Notepad on Fedora, type:
sudo snap install notepad-plus-plus
You will the output like:
notepad-plus-plus 7.8.6 from Taqu Raza (mmtrt) installed
Step 3 – Launch Notepad
After completing the above step, Notepad will be installed on your Fedora system. Now, launch Notepad from the applications. Search for you application and you will find a launch icon like:
Notepad is ready to be use on your Fedora system.
Step 4 – Uninstall Notepad
You can remove snap packages anytime, whenever you don’t required the application. To uninstall Notepad from your Fedora system, execute:
sudo snap remove notepad-plus-plus
Conclusion
In this tutorial, you have learned about installation of Notepad on your Fedora system using snap.
