In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Plainpad, a simple text editor for macOS, on Arch Linux.
To install Plainpad on Arch Linux, you need to install a few dependencies. Open your terminal and run the following command:
sudo pacman -S webkit2gtk
This will install the webkit2gtk package, which is required for Plainpad to work.
Next, you need to download and extract the Plainpad archive from the official website. To do this, open your web browser and go to the following URL:
https://alextselegidis.com/get/plainpad/
Once the website loads, click on the "Download for Linux" button. This will download the Plainpad archive to your computer.
Once the download is complete, open your terminal and navigate to the directory where the archive was downloaded. Then, extract the archive using the following command:
tar xvf plainpad-0.4.4-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
This will extract the Plainpad files to a directory named "plainpad".
To install Plainpad system-wide, you need to move the extracted files to the /opt directory. To do this, run the following command in your terminal:
sudo mv plainpad /opt/
Next, you need to create a symlink for Plainpad so that you can run it from the command line. To do this, run the following command in your terminal:
sudo ln -s /opt/plainpad/plainpad /usr/bin/plainpad
Now that Plainpad is installed, you can launch it by running the following command in your terminal:
plainpad
This will launch Plainpad, and you can start using it to create and edit text files.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Plainpad on Arch Linux.
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