How to install Notepadqq 1.4.2 on Ubuntu 18.04

To install Notepadqq 1.4.2 on Ubuntu 18.04

Notepadqq is a free and open source alternative to Notepad++. Notepad++ is a very common and popular text editor on Microsoft Windows. Although Notepad++ is open source and licensed under GPL, it uses pure Win32 API. So compiling it on Linux is very hard.

Installation

You need to add the necessary repository as shown here.

root@linuxhelp1:~# add-apt-repository ppa:notepadqq-team/notepadqq
 Notepadqq text editor
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~notepadqq-team/+archive/ubuntu/notepadqq
Press [ENTER] to continue or Ctrl-c to cancel adding it.

Hit:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease         
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Get:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/notepadqq-team/notepadqq/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages [932 B]
Get:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/notepadqq-team/notepadqq/ubuntu bionic/main Translation-en [424 B]
Fetched 17.7 kB in 2s (7,145 B/s)
Reading package lists... Done

Update your system by making use of the following command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/notepadqq-team/notepadqq/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease              
Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease [83.2 kB]
Get:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease [83.2 kB]
Get:5 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease [74.6 kB]
Fetched 241 kB in 2s (140 kB/s)   
Reading package lists... Done

You can install Notepadqq as follows

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install notepadqq -yu
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3
  libaprutil1-ldap
Use ' sudo apt autoremove'  to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
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Setting up libqt5widgets5:amd64 (5.9.5+dfsg-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libqt5printsupport5:amd64 (5.9.5+dfsg-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libqt5svg5:amd64 (5.9.5-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libqt5webchannel5:amd64 (5.9.5-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libqt5webkit5:amd64 (5.212.0~alpha2-7ubuntu1) ...
Setting up notepadqq (1.4.4-1~bionic1) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/notepadqq/notepadqq.sh to provide /usr/bin/notepadqq (notepadqq) in auto mode
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ...

After the successful installation, you can access the application from the menu as follows

With this, the method to install Notepadqq 1.4.2 on Ubuntu 18.04 comes to an end.