Notepad++ snap package doesn't launch
I installed the Notepad++ snap package few months ago in Ubuntu 18.04, and it worked perfectly. Two weeks ago suddenly Notepad++ stopped opening. When I click on the Notepad++ icon nothing happens. I removed and installed Notepad++ again, but it's still not working. I haven't any logs about this.
When I run snap run notepad-plus-plus
I get the following results:
wine cmd.exe /c echo '%ProgramFiles%' returned empty string, error message "wine: WINEARCH set to win64 but '/home/my-username/snap/notepad-plus-plus/common/.wine' is a 32-bit installation."
That issue is due to big changes made to the snap. This is now using 64bit version of Notepad++
with wine64
on amd64
systems and 32bit
version of Notepad++ on i386
systems. This snap is now using wine-platform
snap so this has both i386 & amd64
wine pkgs earlier it was using wine-platform-i386
snap which only had wine i386
pkgs. So currently migrating to wine-platform
snap from older wine-platform-i386
snap which is not done automatically when user updates the snap caused issue. I'm currently pushing changes to detect if user is still connected snap on older platform should ask to do these commands.
Run these commands will fix your issue.
snap disconnect notepad-plus-plus:wine-platform-plug
snap install wine-platform
snap connect notepad-plus-plus:wine-platform-plug wine-platform:wine-base-stable
If issue still exists then you have to remove win32 WINEPREFIX
in order to create win64.
rm -r $HOME/snap/notepad-plus-plus/common/.wine