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title: Install FATE - Formatted Article & Text Editor on Kubuntu using the Snap Store
  | Snapcraft
description: Get the latest version of FATE - Formatted Article & Text Editor for
  on Kubuntu - Markdown viewer and text editor for technical documents
url: https://snapcraft.io/install/fate/kubuntu
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# Install FATE - Formatted Article & Text Editor on **Kubuntu**

# FATE - Formatted Article & Text Editor (fate)

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[Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/fate/kubuntu#install)

#### Markdown viewer and text editor for technical documents

FATE (Formatted Article and Text Editor) renders Markdown the way technical documents need:
KaTeX mathematics, Mermaid diagrams, syntax-highlighted code fences and a live table of
contents, with a repair layer that heals badly escaped LaTeX before it reaches the screen.

It is also a full text editor. Any text file opens - code, configuration files, logs,
scripts, extensionless files - in a CodeMirror editor with highlighting for around 150
languages, code folding, multiple cursors, search and replace, split view and diffs.

Eight themes plus a theme builder, a bundled font library, print to PDF with a real preview,
tabs with session restore. Fully offline: no telemetry, no network requests.

### Package name

* fate

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### License

* AGPL-3.0-only

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### Last updated

* 24 October 2026 - latest/stable

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### Websites

* [github.com/VagueDustin/FATE](https://github.com/VagueDustin/FATE "https://github.com/VagueDustin/FATE")

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### Source code

* [github.com/VagueDustin/FATE](https://github.com/VagueDustin/FATE "https://github.com/VagueDustin/FATE")

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### Report a bug

* [github.com/VagueDustin/FATE/issues](https://github.com/VagueDustin/FATE/issues "https://github.com/VagueDustin/FATE/issues")

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##### Report a Snap Store violation

* [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/install/fate/kubuntu#report-snap-modal)

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## Enable snaps on Kubuntu and install FATE - Formatted Article & Text Editor

Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.

Snaps are discoverable and installable from the [Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/store), an app store with an audience of millions.

### Enable snapd

If you’re running [Kubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)](https://kubuntu.org/) or later, including [Kubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseNotes/Kubuntu) and [Kubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish)](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CosmicCuttlefish/ReleaseNotes/Kubuntu), you don’t need to do anything. Snap is already installed and ready to go.

Versions of Kubuntu between [14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)](https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-14-04-lts) and [15.10 (Wily Werewolf)](https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-15-10) don’t include *snap* by default, but *snap* can be installed from the command line as follows:

```
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
```

### Install FATE - Formatted Article & Text Editor

To install FATE - Formatted Article & Text Editor, simply use the following command:

```
sudo snap install fate
```

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