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Firstly, I'll say that I have scanned the internet far and wide and am not looking for the responses that many new linux users with an affinity for notepad++ almost invariably received... "use this linux based INE or this one or download plugins for this other one"... No, sir. I miss notepad++. I moved to linux land, (exiled from windows for having an expired VISA) and I'll do anything to get her to move here with me. I want to wine and dine her, and I need some advice.

I am rather new to the command line and linux in general so I need a good walkthrough. I downloaded the npp.5.8.5.Installer.exe... I have wine installed... I have no idea what directory or where in god's name this .exe exists or if i have to query wine or what.

Any help is much appreciated. I'm also going to want to install itunes as well. That's not as important, but if the commands are similar I figure I might as well aim to request the killing of two birds with one.

Any help is much appreciated.

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apt-get install geany – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Apr 15 '11 at 2:11
The advices you've found when googling make sense. Linux users don't give such advices because they are elitist or mean or whatever. Some notorious text editors, notably vim and emacs, have both Linux and Windows versions. Notepad++ doesn't, even if it's based on scintilla, which is not tied to a single OS. You have a problem with notepad++ and if it doesn't run well via wine, your option is to pester its devs to port it to Linux. – vtest Apr 15 '11 at 5:29
use geany, it is comparable to np++. – Walter Maier-Murdnelch Jan 4 at 20:58
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Sadly in my experience Notepad++ does not work well in Ubuntu with Wine. The closest Linux text editor I could find that was somewhat similar to Notepad++ was SciTE.

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I assume that's because both notepad++ and scite use scintilla. – vtest Apr 15 '11 at 5:22
@vtest I had never thought about it, but now that you mention it, yes, I'm sure that is why. – typoknig Apr 15 '11 at 7:17
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Just run the installer with wine.

$ wine npp.5.8.5.Installer.exe

That should just work as long is it is an app that "plays nice".

You should also see an icon in your gnome or KDE menu.

But.... yes, Vim is better. ;-)

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wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\npp.5.8.5.Installer.exe" – bodhidarma1 Dec 14 '10 at 7:04
IIRC, you have to configure wine first, I think it's winecfg or something. I can't verify now since I don't have wine installed. I'm sure there are docs... You might have one or two issues. See appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=13036 – Keith Dec 14 '10 at 18:01
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