How To Install Nano Text Editor on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Nano Text Editor on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, GNU nano is a text editor for Unix-like computing systems or operating environments using a command line interface. It is a very beginner-friendly text editor, which is why it is most preferred by newbies. However, despite being a simple text editor, it can still work well for text and source code editing.

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of GNU nano on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 22.04 and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Pop!_OS, and more as well.

Prerequisites

• A server running one of the following operating systems: Ubuntu 22.04, 20.04, and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint.
• It’s recommended that you use a fresh OS install to prevent any potential issues.
• SSH access to the server (or just open Terminal if you’re on a desktop).
• A non-root sudo user or access to the root user. We recommend acting as a non-root sudo user, however, as you can harm your system if you’re not careful when acting as the root.

Install Nano Text Editor on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish

Step 1. First, make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date by running the following apt commands in the terminal.

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install wget apt-transport-https gnupg2 software-properties-common

Step 2. Installing Nano Text Editor on Ubuntu 22.04.

By default, Nano is available on Ubuntu 22.04 base repository. Now run the following command below to install the latest stable version of Nano to your Ubuntu system:

sudo apt install nano

Verify the version installed of Nano:

nano --version

Step 3. Working with Nano Text Editor.

In this part, you are going to tips on how to open and close files. Also, a way to search and replace text. Then, we’ll exhibit to you some editing hints and different user-friendly commands that you could use in Nano textual content editor:

The main syntax to open Nano and to edit a certain file is:

nano sample-file.txt

To search in the text,  press CTRL + W. Insert your value and press Enter. To continue searching for the same text string, use ALT + W.

We have compiled the most useful commands to help you utilize the Nano text editor more effectively:

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Nano. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing Nano open-source text editor on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you check the official Nano website.