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Installing Freemind on SUSE Linux 10.2 |
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Written by Chintan Rajyaguru
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Saturday, 10 March 2007 18:39 |
I use a mind mapping tool called Freemind. It is available here. It's a great tool for capturing ideas. I like seeing all my ideas grouped together right in front of me and this tool (written in Java) makes it possible. It's easier than a creating and reading a list.
Anyway, I want to talk about its installation. I have always used this tool on windows and it always installed itself without any problems. You can download an exe file from here. But things aren't as easy on Linux (isn't that why most of the people still find windows easier to use?). Freemind requires several packages to be installed successfully on Linux. The easiest way to deal with these dependencies is to download Freemind freemind-0.8.0-6.noarch.rpm file from here. Become root using su command and install the file using rpm -ivh <file_name> command. It will fail with a message that looks like: error: Failed dependencies:
jakarta-commons-lang is needed by freemind-0.8.0-6.noarch
relaxngDatatype is needed by freemind-0.8.0-6.noarch
msv-xsdlib is needed by freemind-0.8.0-6.noarch
jgoodies-forms is needed by freemind-0.8.0-6.noarch
xml-commons-apis is needed by freemind-0.8.0-6.noarch
ws-jaxme is needed by freemind-0.8.0-6.noarch
jakarta-commons-codec is needed by freemind-0.8.0-6.noarch
Now, go to JPackage website. Download and install every missing package listed above and then try installing Freemind again. Do you have to go through the pain of installing all these packages when all you need is a simple mind mapping tool? Not really! In the past I have used kdissert at http://www.kde.org.uk/apps/kdissert/, which is relatively easy to install but I am used to Freemind so I will stick to it.
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