Sunday, September 7, 2014

[Linux, Mint, Ubuntu] Update FreeMind the Lazy Way...

The latest version of FreeMind in the Ubuntu repositories as of this writing is 0.9, which is quite old.  But, there is an easy way to get the latest version, use a 3rd party repo.

See here:  http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/ppa/getdeb_apps?dist=trusty
wget -q -O - http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu trusty-getdeb apps" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list'

After this, do:

sudo apt-get update

and finally:

wskellenger@marquette ~ $ sudo apt-get install freemind
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  freemind-plugins-help freemind-plugins-svg freemind-plugins-script
  freemind-plugins-map freemind-browser
Recommended packages:
  freemind-doc
The following packages will be upgraded:
  freemind
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 27 not upgraded.
Need to get 20.1 MB of archives.
After this operation, 18.3 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu/ trusty-getdeb/apps freemind all 1.0.1-1~getdeb1 [20.1 MB]
Fetched 20.1 MB in 15s (1,319 kB/s)            

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