sudo notepad-plus-plus not working

nerdfever.com

2/6/24, 8:56 PM

I installed notepad-plus-plus from the Snap Store; this is a Windows text editor; it runs under Wine.

It works fine for normal files, but for files that require root permission I have trouble.

For example, to edit such a file with nano I'd do:

sudo nano /etc/rc.local

If I try that with notepad-plus-plus, I get this:

dave@MONOLITH:~$ sudo notepad-plus-plus /etc/rc.local
mkdir: cannot create directory '/run/user/0': Permission denied
Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified
Starting application..

And the program doesn't start.

How can I make this work?

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nerdfever.com

2/7/24, 8:51 PM

@Nmath Thanks. I've invested a lot in Notepad++ configuration, so it seems worth trying. Reading elsewhere I found a suggestion to take ownership of the file, edit it, and then set the ownership back. Do you think that'll work? Is there a method to do that in a script?

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