Freeplane installation for Ubuntu OS

To install Freeplane on Ubuntu:

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 newest version

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

3. You can add Freeplane to Directory Applications/Office in the following way:

Right-click Apllications and select Edit Menus
Select Office (left) and select Add Menu item (right)
Type a name, e.g. freeplane
Browse to 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.

4. You can add the freeplane icon to the toolbar in the following way:

Navigation menu