Freeplane installation for Ubuntu OS

To install Freeplane for Ubuntu operating system:

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

2. Download Freeplane

• 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 official version goto http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeplane/ and press download.
• Then choose Open with Archive manager, and press OK

3. 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.

4. Then run freeplane

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

5. 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.

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

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

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