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To run freeplane in Linux, the following steps are recommended: | To run freeplane in Linux, the following steps are recommended: | ||
− | 1. Download the Freeplane | + | 1. [http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeplane/ Download] the Freeplane zipfile, and extract its contents to the folder of your choosing (e.g. ~/local/freeplane-xxxx , where xxxx is a version-number). |
2. Create a freeplane symlink to ~/local/freeplane-xxxx: <pre>ln -nsf ~/local/freeplane-xxxx ~/local/freeplane</pre> | 2. Create a freeplane symlink to ~/local/freeplane-xxxx: <pre>ln -nsf ~/local/freeplane-xxxx ~/local/freeplane</pre> |
Revision as of 20:11, 24 January 2011
To run freeplane in Linux, the following steps are recommended:
1. Download the Freeplane zipfile, and extract its contents to the folder of your choosing (e.g. ~/local/freeplane-xxxx , where xxxx is a version-number).
2. Create a freeplane symlink to ~/local/freeplane-xxxx:
ln -nsf ~/local/freeplane-xxxx ~/local/freeplane
3. (optional) If you have a ~/bin folder which is in your shell path, you can create a symlink to the freeplane start-script:
ln -s ~/local/freeplane/freeplane.sh ~/bin/freeplane
You should now be able to run freeplane from the commandline by simply typing freeplane
.
4. Finally, to add an icon which will show up in your applications menu, save the following text to the file ~/.local/share/applications/freeplane.desktop
:
[Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Freeplane Exec=/bin/sh /home/YOUR-USERNAME/local/freeplane/freeplane.sh %f Terminal=false Icon=/home/YOUR-USERNAME/local/freeplane/freeplane.svg Type=Application MimeType=application/x-freemind Categories=Application;Office; GenericName=Freeplane Comment=A free mind mapping tool
(for more details on why adding this file works, see the XDG Desktop Menu Specification, which is followed by all major linux desktop-environments)
Now, any time you wish to update your Freeplane application, just repeat steps 1 and 2.