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Revision as of 10:04, 21 October 2012
For UBUNTU, see here
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.
