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Installing FreeMind to Ubuntu Linux 16.04

Installing FreeMind to Ubuntu Linux
I wanted to install mind-mapping software to my Ubuntu Linux laptop.  I used to use FreeMind a couple of years ago, and liked it.  “No problem,” I thought.  “I will just fire up Ubuntu Software and install it from there.”  But FreeMind was not on the Ubuntu Software list.
“OK, I will get it through Synaptic Package Manager (SPaM),” I said to myself, feeling smug because A) SPaM has every Linux program under the sun (and quite a few from other star systems too), and B) I know that SPaM exists, AND I had already installed it.  However, FreeMind did not appear, even in SPaM.
It had become a mystery.
I was able to install the .deb package from SourceForge for FreeMind 0.8.1.  This is not the most recent version;  V 10 is available for Windows…
In Terminal CLI, I tried switching to the Downloads directory, then installing with dpkg;
 ~$  cd Downloads
~$  sudo dpkg –i freemind_0.8.1-2_all.deb
This got me a raft of error messages—I had to install Java support packages.
I manually installed the ones I could find in Synaptic, de-installed FreeMind, restarted and re-installed FreeMind, and got additional lists of needed Java packages—AND a helpful comment;
“Unmet dependencies.  Try ‘apt-get –f install’ with no packages (or specify a solution).”
Typing
~$ sudo apt-get –f install
pulled in a raft of other java packages that had not yet been mentioned.  After typing ‘Y’ at
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
the system pulled in the needed packages, ending with
Setting up freemind (0.8.1-2)
It works!
Addendum:
After all that, I ran across this step-by-step method for installing the most recent WIN version in Linux using the WIN package from SourceForge.  Maybe I’ll try it sometime, but right now I need to use FreeMind to take care of some tasks...



Alt method of installing FreeMind;
https://sourceforge.
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