Unable to use or open Notepad++ after installation [duplicate]

I have recently installed Ubuntu 18.04 on my laptop. I tried installing Notepad++ using the following commands:

sudo snap install notepad-plus-plus  

However, after installing it, I can see Notepad ++ is installed but I am unable to open it.

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."

I also tried the suggestion mentioned in

notepad-plus-plus snap does not start on Ubuntu

but can't get Notepad ++ to open.

Solution 1:

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