.. index:: XMind8 .. _XMind8: XMind8 ====== Description ----------- XMind is mind mapping and brainstorming software. User instructions ----------------- XMind8 is installed as a module and can be added to your environment with: .. code-block:: bash $ module load xmind8/b3.7.0 The command to launch the application is ``xmind``, or ``XMind``. Documentation is available in the application and at the `XMind website `_. Website ------- https://www.xmind.net/xmind8/ License ------- Proprietary commercial software. Admin notes ----------- They provide a deb file but no easy way to get this working without installing on a target machine. Instead of doing this, I bundled it up in an appimage, using `deb2appimage `_ (available itself as an appimage). After some trial and error, I used the following json configuration file: .. code-block:: json { "buildinfo": [ { "prerun": [ "curl -sL -o ~/.cache/deb2appimage/debs/xmind8-linux.deb http://www.xmind.net/xmind/downloads/xmind-8-beta-linux_amd64.deb" ], "name": "xmind8", "version": "linux", "deps": "", "repoarch": "amd64", "distrorepo": "Debian", "repoversion": "jessie-backports,jessie,jessie", "binarypath": "/usr/bin/XMind", "desktoppath": null, "iconpath": "/usr/share/pixmaps/XMind.png", "usewrapper": "true", "postrun": [ null ] } ], "apprunconf": [ { "setpath": "true", "setlibpath": "true", "setpythonpath": "false", "setpythonhome": "false", "setpythondontwritebytecode": "false", "setxdgdatadirs": "false", "setperllib": "false", "setgsettingsschemadir": "false", "setqtpluginpath": "false", "exec": "/usr/lib/xmind/XMind" } ], "authors": [ { "type": "Author", "author": "XMind", "url": "https://xmind.ndet" }, { "type": "AppImage Maintainer", "author": "Éamonn Murray", "url": "http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/eamonn.murray" } ] } Then the appimage was created with: .. code-block:: bash ./deb2appimage-0.0.3-x86_64.AppImage -j /workspace/emurray/test/xmind8.json -o /workspace/emurray/test The generated appimage could then be copied to the appropriate modules directory, with symbolic links added pointing "xmind" and "XMind" to it.