Plainpad is a lightweight plain text editor that has been developed by Alex Tselegidis, and it is available for multiple platforms. In this tutorial, we will see how you can install Plainpad on Fedora CoreOS Latest.
Before we proceed with the installation, make sure you have the following:
To download the Plainpad package, use the following command:
sudo curl -LJO https://github.com/alextselegidis/plainpad/releases/download/v1.0.0/plainpad-v1.0.0-linux-x64.tar.bz2
This command will download the latest Plainpad package in the .tar.bz2 format.
To extract the downloaded package, use the following command:
sudo tar -xjvf plainpad-v1.0.0-linux-x64.tar.bz2
This command will extract the Plainpad package to the current directory.
To install Plainpad, move the extracted package to /usr/local/bin using the following command:
sudo mv plainpad-v1.0.0-linux-x64/plainpad /usr/local/bin
This command will move the plainpad binary file to the /usr/local/bin directory.
To verify that Plainpad has been installed successfully, type plainpad in the terminal, and press Enter. If Plainpad opens up without any errors, then the installation process is complete.
Using this tutorial, you have successfully installed Plainpad on Fedora CoreOS Latest. You can now use Plainpad to edit your plain text files.
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