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title: Installing yEd on Linux link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2013/04/26/installing-yed-on-linux/ author: phil2nc description: post_id: 4739 created: 2013/04/26 12:50:03 created_gmt: 2013/04/26 16:50:03 comment_status: closed post_name: installing-yed-on-linux status: publish post_type: post

Installing yEd on Linux

Desperate to find some new package for drawing network diagrams other than Visio or dia, I came across yEd from yWorks. This is a pretty good drawing package. Because it is written in Java, it is also cross platform. Here's how I set it up on Fedora (I'm also using it on Windows 7 64-bit -- all I did there was create a shortcut to the yed.jar file and import set the icon to the included yicon.ico). 1. Downloaded the zip distribution. 2. Copied contents to /opt/yed. 3. Created shell script to launch application, /opt/yed/yed.sh.

#!/bin/bash
JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jre
${JAVA_HOME}/bin/java -jar /opt/yed/yed.jar "$@"

4. Symlinked yed.sh to /usr/local/bin/yed. Also copied /opt/yed/icons/yicon32.png to /usr/share/pixmaps. 5. Create /usr/share/applications/yed.desktop.

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=yEd
GenericName=Draw Diagrams
Comment=
Exec=yed
Icon=yicon.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
Categories=Applications;Graphics;