Dependencies and Linux Packaging

Packaging Freeplane for Linux distros

This page contains information about Freeplane requirements/dependencies and GNU/Linux packaging information for release 1.2.x (and, to a lesser extent, 1.3.x).

See also How to build Freeplane.

Dependencies

Package	Description	Version required	Debian Package
Groovy	Dynamic language for the JVM, used for scripting/add-ons	>=1.8.6	groovy (=> use groovy-all.jar to get the deps below as well!)
ANTLR	Parser Generator used by groovy	>= 2.7.7	antlr (but groovy depends on it)
Apache commons CLI	Command line parser, used by groovy.	>= 1.2	libcommon-cli-java (but groovy depends on it)
ASM	Java bytecode manipulation and analysis framework.	>= 3.3.2	libasm3-java (but groovy depends on it)
JLaTeXMath	Used for LaTeX Rendering in node extension (1.2.x) / node core (1.3.x)	>=0.9.7 (1.2.x) / 1.0.2 (1.3.x)	libjlatexmath-java
JSyntaxPane	Provides JEditorPane with syntax highlighting, used for groovy scripts and LaTeX (>= 1.3.x)	current subversion @revision r156 (1.2.x and 1.3.x)	libjsyntaxpane-java
SimplyHTML	Rich text editor used for editing node content / notes / ...	>=0.16.07 (1.2.x and 1.3.x)	simplyhtml
Java Help	deprecated, but still used by simplyhtml	>=2.0.0?	javahelp2
Apache commons lang	Helper utilities for java.lang	>=2.0 (1.2.x), >=2.6 (1.3.x)	libcommons-lang-java
Apache commons IO	Helper utilities for java.io	>=2.4	libcommons-io-java
JGoodies Forms	Helper utilities for forms layout	>= 1.2.1	libjgoodies-forms-java
GNU Regexp	GNU Regexp implementation (not sure if it's used by freeplane directly, but still used by simpyhtml!)	>=1.1.4	libgnu-regexp-java
Knopflerfish OSGi	OSGi implementation used by freeplane	>=2.3.3	libknopflerfish-osgi-framework-java
Apache Batik	used by SVG plugin	>=1.7	libbatik-java
Rhino	Pure Java open source javascript engine, used by SVG plugin	>=1.7R	librhino-java
Apache FOP	Apache Formatting Objects Processor, used by SVG plugin	>=1.0	libfop-java
Xerces2	a library for parsing, validating and manipulating XML documents, used by SVG plugin	>=2.5.0	libxerces2-java
Apache XML Commons	common code and guidelines for xml projects, used by SVG plugin	>=1.4?	libxml-commons-external-java
InfoNode Docking Windows	Used for docking windows (>=1.3.x only!!)	>=1.6.1	libidw-java
JMapViewer	Used by openmaps plugin (>=1.3.x only!!)	>=1.02 (patch for 1.03 is included!)	jmapviewer
Apache commons codec	Used to encode/decode view state (>=1.3.x only!!)	>=1.7	libcommons-codec-java (currently at 1.8)

If you want to know the mapping between freeplane jars and jars in Debian packages, check out this patch.

Build-time dependencies

• all of the dependencies above are build-deps too
• junit, ant, jdk
• 1.3.x: jflex for compiling latex.flex (LaTeX syntax highlighting for JSyntaxPane)
  • LaTeXLexer.java must be built from latex.flex at package build time

Miscellaneous

• of course mac stuff can (and must) not be built
• freeplane_plugin_uispec4j/ can be ignored
• freeplane_plugin_help/ is no longer needed, can be ignored
• jortho.jar is built from JOrtho_0.4_freeplane/
• launch4j is Windows-only

Changes for 1.3.x

• Debian: require openjdk-7-jre as the only JRE (Depends:) because JMapViewer requires it anyway and jdk6 is not in jessie?
• launch4j => windows only
• latest JSyntaxPane (..r156) required (LaTeX syntax highlighting)
  • is ...r156 correctly pulled as a dependency (as opposed to r148!)????
• new plugin "Openmaps integration", new dependency JMapViewer
• new feature "Docking Windows", with new dependency IDW
• new command line option -U (include in man page!)
  • also mention latex in core, openmaps integration, workspace plugins in 1.3.x manpage
    • workspace plugin has been disabled for 1.3.x!!
  • bump up version in man-page!
• make sure that srcpure does not contain *.class, *.exe, *.dll, ...
• build LaTeXLexer.java before build target runs
• remove /etc/kde3/magic/freeplane.magic
• install a 48x48 icon (http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html)?
• how to fix 80_no_update_check.patch??
• fix http://lintian.debian.org/tags/menu-icon-uses-relative-path.html (freeplane package) (fixed in 1.2.23-2)

Icons

Freeplane 1.2.x and 1.3.x come with a single icon for files + application (freeplane_framework/build/freeplane.{svg,png}), while Freeplane 1.4.x will have two icons (like on Windows):

• for files / mime types: freeplane_framework/build/freeplane.{svg,png}
• for the application: freeplane_framework/build/freeplane_app.{svg,png}

Distro-specific information

See this search link for older packages.

Debian

Current release for Debian is 1.3.11, maintainer is Felix Natter <fnatter@gmx.net>. It's now in testing/"jessie".

The packaging source code is maintained in Git repos:

• http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-java/simplyhtml.git
• http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-java/freeplane.git

See the table on the top of the page for Debian git/svn packaging repos of some dependencies.

Mageia Linux

Current release is 1.3.11, maintainer is Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>.

The packaging source code is available at:

• https://github.com/htgoebel/freeplane-mageia

Arch Linux

Current Release for Arch Linux is 1.3.11, maintainer is Leonidas Spyropoulos <artafinde at gmail dot com>

The package is available in AUR:

• https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/freeplane

The PKGBUILD is maintained at github:

• https://github.com/inglor/pkgbuild/tree/master/freeplane

Fedora

TODO: where is it?

OpenSuSE

see this link