FreeMind Guide

Installation

I have written FreeMind in Java, so you will need the Java Runtime Environment for your Operating System. That shouldn't be a problem at all, because Java is available for Linux, Windows, Macintosh, Solaris and even PDA's. Just Download it at java.sun.com/j2se. You need at least Java 2 Version 1.2 . If you can manage to install the JRE, your half on your way to install FreeMind (congratulations ;-).

FreeMind is packaged as a zip, and new versions are also available as tgz. Download the binary file (freemind-bin-x_x_x.zip) and create a directory where you want to install FreeMind into, and unpack the freemind-bin-x_x_x.zip into it. The source files (freemind-src-x_x_x.zip) contain the FreeMind sourcecode and are not executable! If you can't unpack the file, you need a compression utility. For windows you can take freezip. For Linux there should be such a utility on every distribution.

Once you have unpacked FreeMind, you can type "java -jar freemind.jar" on the shell if you are in the directory where freemind.jar is located. Alternatively, you can copy a link to freemind.bat (on windows) or freemind.sh (on unix) to your desktop. If FreeMind runs, open the file "freemind.mm", which explains the usage of FreeMind.

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