[SOLVED] Notepadqq - successful installation but cannot be started

glupa4e · 05-02-2018, 02:28 PM

Hello,
i found that alternative to Notepad++ and wanted to try it out on Linux. The installation of the package went without any errors. I did it with the root user. Now i try to start the application with a normal user but it won't.
Error startting in KDE

Code:

KDEInit could not launch 'notepadqq':
Could not find 'notepadqq' executable.

I cannot find it when i search in my installed applications in KDE.
I edited the PATH variable

Code:

bash-4.3$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/share/ant/bin:/opt/idea/bin:/usr/lib64/kde4/libexec:/usr/lib64/java/bin:/usr/lib64/java/jre/bin:/usr/lib64/qt/bin:/usr/lib64/qt5/bin:/usr/share/texmf/bin:/opt/notepadqq/bin

I can see the following folders installed on my system

Code:

bash-4.3$ cd /opt/notepadqq/bin
bash-4.3$ ls -la                                                                                                                                
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 25 18:53 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Apr 25 18:53 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1622 Apr 25 18:52 notepadqq

Any idea what i need to do next in order to fix that?

ponce · 05-02-2018, 03:00 PM

add this block after the "make install" line in the SlackBuild

Code:

# create a wrapper script and make it executable
mkdir -p $PKG/usr/bin
cat << "EOF" > $PKG/usr/bin/notepadqq
#!/bin/sh
/opt/notepadqq/bin/notepadqq $@
EOF
chmod +x $PKG/usr/bin/notepadqq

then run the SlackBuild again and upgrade the installed package with the new one.

glupa4e · 05-03-2018, 02:45 PM

I had to download and adjust the SlackBuild. Then i removed the old package installed via sbopkg. Then i ran the SlackBuild and installed the crated package using installpkg. That did the trick, now i am able to start the application. Probably the posted script on slackbuilds.org should be adapted with your solution?

Thanks once again!