.. index:: XMind8
.. _XMind8:
XMind8
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Description
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XMind is mind mapping and brainstorming software.
User instructions
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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
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https://www.xmind.net/xmind8/
License
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Proprietary commercial software.
Admin notes
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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.