Freeplane installation for Ubuntu OS

To install Freeplane for the Ubuntu operating system:

Update: Freeplane is packaged for Debian/Ubuntu => just run:

 apt-get install freeplane

The following steps are recommended if the Freeplane package for your distro is out of date:

1. Make sure Java is installed:

• Choose Applications > Ubuntu Software center
• Type in the search field: Java
• In the list that opens, choose JDK Java 6 Runtime
• If you see "Remove", Java is installed already. If you see Install, click it to install Java
  
  

2a. If you cannot update Debian/Ubuntu, download the generic .deb

• For every release, starting with 1.6.5, there is a .deb included which includes all libraries, so it works on any Debian/Ubuntu release
• go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeplane/, click "Browse all files", navigate to "freeplane stable"
• download freeplane_<version>+upstream-1_all.deb
• install using dpkg -i *.deb
• this will create a menu entry, mime type mappings etc
• you do not need steps 2b...7b
  
  

2b. Download Freeplane binary package

• For newest version goto http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/preview/ and download Freeplane_bin-XXXX.zip, in which XXXX is a shown version number.
• Or for the official version goto http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeplane/ and press download.
• Then choose Open with Archive manager, and press OK
  
  

3b. Extract the freeplane directory

• In the download window press extract, select the location (e.g. Documents) and press Extract again.
• Then open the the directory where you extracted freeplane (Documents) and open the newly created Freeplane directory.
  
  

4b. Then run freeplane

• In the extracted directory, double-click on Freeplane.sh and select Run (or run in terminal window). Now Freeplane opens and you can use it.
  

If you want you can customize the installation as follows.

5b. For easy access, add Freeplane to Applications > Office:

• Right-click Apllications and select Edit Menus
• Select Office (left) and select Add Menu item (right)
• Type a name, e.g. freeplane
• Browse to the directory with freeplane, click freeplane.sh and press ok
• With freeplane selecte, press Properties
• Click on the icon on the left and browse via Documenten > FreeplaneXXX to the file freeplane.svg; and select it.

Now freeplane is added to Office with the freeplane icon.

6b. For faster access, add the freeplane icon to the toolbar:

• Goto Applications > Office and right-click Freeplane.
• Select add this launcher to toolbar.
  
  

7b. Now you can start freeplane by pressing its icon in the toolbar