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Install Xmind 8 on Linux Mint 21

Prereqs

  • a PC (BIOS/UEFI) running Linux Mint 21
  • internet connection

Download

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# directory Downloads/XMind will be created
wget https://www.xmind.net/xmind/downloads/xmind-8-update9-linux.zip -P Downloads/Xmind/

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guru@hp:~$ wget https://www.xmind.net/xmind/downloads/xmind-8-update9-linux.zip -P Downloads/Xmind/
--2022-05-13 14:09:16--  https://www.xmind.net/xmind/downloads/xmind-8-update9-linux.zip
Resolving www.xmind.net (www.xmind.net)... 3.232.41.189, 44.194.150.33
Connecting to www.xmind.net (www.xmind.net)|3.232.41.189|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://dl3.xmind.net/xmind-8-update9-linux.zip [following]
--2022-05-13 14:09:16--  https://dl3.xmind.net/xmind-8-update9-linux.zip
Resolving dl3.xmind.net (dl3.xmind.net)... 13.227.219.86, 13.227.219.108, 13.227.219.84, ...
Connecting to dl3.xmind.net (dl3.xmind.net)|13.227.219.86|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 120292589 (115M) [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘Downloads/Xmind/xmind-8-update9-linux.zip’

xmind-8-update9-linux.zip                                   100%[=========================================================================================================================================>] 114.72M  14.5MB/s    in 11s     

2022-05-13 14:09:28 (9.98 MB/s) - ‘Downloads/Xmind/xmind-8-update9-linux.zip’ saved [120292589/120292589]

guru@hp:~$

Unzip and remove zip file

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unzip Downloads/Xmind/xmind-8-update9-linux.zip -d Downloads/Xmind/ > /dev/null 2>&1
rm Downloads/Xmind/xmind-8-update9-linux.zip

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guru@hp:~$ unzip Downloads/Xmind/xmind-8-update9-linux.zip -d Downloads/Xmind/ > /dev/null 2>&1
guru@hp:~$ rm Downloads/Xmind/xmind-8-update9-linux.zip
guru@hp:~$

Check and adjust requirements

List the contents of the installation directory. Notice "setup.sh".

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guru@hp:~$ ls -lh Downloads/Xmind/
total 676K
-rw-r--r--  1 guru guru 403K Dec  9  2019 artifacts.xml
drwxr-xr-x  2 guru guru 4.0K Dec  9  2019 configuration
-rw-r--r--  1 guru guru  17K Mar 15  2017 epl-v10.html
drwxr-xr-x 25 guru guru 4.0K Dec  9  2019 features
drwxr-xr-x  2 guru guru 4.0K Mar 15  2017 fonts
-rw-r--r--  1 guru guru 8.3K Mar 15  2017 lgpl-3.0.html
drwxr-xr-x 21 guru guru 168K Dec  9  2019 plugins
-rw-r--r--  1 guru guru  38K Dec  9  2019 readme.txt
-rwxr-xr-x  1 guru guru  546 Jul  2  2018 setup.sh
drwxr-xr-x  4 guru guru 4.0K Dec  9  2019 XMind_amd64
drwxr-xr-x  4 guru guru 4.0K Dec  9  2019 XMind_i386
-rw-r--r--  1 guru guru 3.2K Jul 23  2018 xpla.txt
guru@hp:~$

Check the contents of that file. Notice the required packages.

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guru@hp:~$ cat Downloads/Xmind/setup.sh
#!/bin/bash

set -e

SCRIPT_NAME="$0"
SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$SCRIPT_NAME")" && pwd)"

echo "[setup] Installing dependencies...."
apt-get install openjdk-8-jre libgtk2.0-0 libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 lame libc6 libglib2.0-0

FONTS_DIR="$SCRIPT_DIR/fonts"
if [ -d "$FONTS_DIR" ]; then
    echo "[setup] Installing custom fonts...."
    mkdir -p /usr/share/fonts/truetype/xmind
    rsync -av "$FONTS_DIR/" /usr/share/fonts/truetype/xmind/
    fc-cache -f
else
    echo "[setup] WARNING: Custom fonts for XMind are not found."
fi

echo "[setup] Done."
guru@hp:~$

Notice that package "libwebkitgtk-1.0-0" is not available in the repository. There is a package "libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37" already installed though...

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guru@hp:~$ apt-cache policy openjdk-8-jre libgtk2.0-0 libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 lame libc6 libglib2.0-0 | grep "Candidate"
  Candidate: 8u312-b07-0ubuntu1~20.04
  Candidate: 2.24.32-4ubuntu4
  Candidate: (none)
  Candidate: 3.100-3
  Candidate: 2.31-0ubuntu9.9
  Candidate: 2.64.6-1~ubuntu20.04.4

guru@hp:~$ dpkg -l | grep libwebkit
ii  libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37:amd64                 2.34.6-0ubuntu0.20.04.1             amd64        Web content engine library for GTK
guru@hp:~$

And notice that packages "libgtk2.0-0", "libc6" and "libglib2.0-0" are already installed.

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guru@hp:~$ apt-cache policy openjdk-8-jre libgtk2.0-0 libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 lame libc6 libglib2.0-0 | grep "Installed"
  Installed: (none)
  Installed: 2.24.32-4ubuntu4
  Installed: (none)
  Installed: (none)
  Installed: 2.31-0ubuntu9.7
  Installed: 2.64.6-1~ubuntu20.04.4
guru@hp:~$

Adjust setup.sh

I don't know why I would need "lame". So we only need 1 package. This sed-oneliner makes the adjustment.

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sed -i '/apt-get/c\apt-get install openjdk-8-jre' Downloads/Xmind/setup.sh

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#!/bin/bash

set -e

SCRIPT_NAME="$0"
SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$SCRIPT_NAME")" && pwd)"

echo "[setup] Installing dependencies...."
apt-get install openjdk-8-jre

FONTS_DIR="$SCRIPT_DIR/fonts"
if [ -d "$FONTS_DIR" ]; then
    echo "[setup] Installing custom fonts...."
    mkdir -p /usr/share/fonts/truetype/xmind
    rsync -av "$FONTS_DIR/" /usr/share/fonts/truetype/xmind/
    fc-cache -f
else
    echo "[setup] WARNING: Custom fonts for XMind are not found."
fi

echo "[setup] Done."

Execute setup.sh

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sudo Downloads/Xmind/setup.sh

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guru@hp:~$ sudo Downloads/Xmind/setup.sh
[sudo] password for guru:     
[setup] Installing dependencies....
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
fonts-dejavu-extra libatk-wrapper-java libatk-wrapper-java-jni openjdk-8-jre-headless
Suggested packages:
fonts-ipafont-gothic fonts-ipafont-mincho fonts-wqy-microhei fonts-wqy-zenhei
The following NEW packages will be installed:
fonts-dejavu-extra libatk-wrapper-java libatk-wrapper-java-jni openjdk-8-jre openjdk-8-jre-headless
0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 33,0 MB of archives.
After this operation, 112 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
...

Find out the path for java-8

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update-alternatives --display java

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guru@hp:~$ update-alternatives --display java
java - auto mode
  link best version is /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64/bin/java
  link currently points to /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64/bin/java
  link java is /usr/bin/java
  slave java.1.gz is /usr/share/man/man1/java.1.gz
/usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64/bin/java - priority 1111
  slave java.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64/man/man1/java.1.gz
/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java - priority 1081
  slave java.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/man/man1/java.1.gz

Adjust xmind.ini

This sed-onliner adds 2 lines at the beginning of the file. Xmind 8 needs the older java runtime.

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sudo sed -i '1i -vm\n/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin' Downloads/Xmind/XMind_amd64/XMind.ini

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-vm
/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin
-configuration
./configuration
-data
../workspace
-startup
../plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.200.v20160318-1642.jar
--launcher.library
../plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_64_1.1.400.v20160518-1444
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
--launcher.GTK_version
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-eclipse.keyring
@user.home/.xmind/secure_storage_linux
-vmargs
-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8

Start Xmind the right way

Starting Xmind like this, won't work.

This will.