Notepad++ stopped working on Ubuntu 22.04

I stumbled upon an issue with Notepad++ today on Ubuntu 22.04, where it just didn't load. Clicking on the desktop icon doesn't do anything.

Running it from the terminal gave the following:

$ notepad-plus-plus
Installing application..
Running hook '/snap/notepad-plus-plus/363/sommelier/hooks/pre-install'
Starting application..
wine: cannot find L"/home/<UserName>/snap/notepad-plus-plus/common/.wine/dosdevices
/z:/home/<UserName>/snap/notepad-plus-plus/363/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus.exe"

1 Answer

I used the solution suggested by Siao-Han (Notepad++ has stopped working) with a small change since the answer was intended for Linux Mint and not for Ubuntu. The only difference is swapping the rm -rf * from Linux Mint for the Ubuntu command rm -r * to remove all files. The following is the adapted answer for Ubuntu:

cd "/home//snap/notepad-plus-plus/common/.wine/dosdevices /z:/home//snap/notepad-plus-plus/363/notepad-plus-plus/"
rm -r *
wget plus/releases/download/v8.4/npp.8.4.portable.x64.zip
unzip npp.8.4.portable.x64.zip
mv notepad++.exe notepad-plus-plus.exe

And like @Siao-Han said, "Afterwards running notepad-plus-plus would work :)" Thanks to Siao-Han for the solution.