I installed yEd, the Graph Editor[1] on Fedora 36 on my Framework Laptop. I wrote about the yEd a little bit in the past on my blog.[2]
This yEd is helpful for thinking clearly. I have used the yEd to think with the Theory of Constraints (TOC) - thinking process - "Current Reality Tree", "Future Reality Tree" and "Evaporating cloud".[3] For the TOC - thinking process, I wrote a blog article in the past.[4]
How to download and install
Go to the download page: https://www.yworks.com/products/yed/download#download and download, then in the case of Linux, I downloaded the "yEd-3.22_with-JRE15_64-bit_setup.sh".
Run the installer by bash yEd-3.22_with-JRE15_64-bit_setup.sh. Then the GUI installer starts.
In the page: "Select directory for symlinks", the "/usr/local/bin" was selected by default. I changed it to the "/home/jaruga/.local/bin", as I wanted to install it to the /home/jaruga/.local.
After finishing the installation, I saw the yEd app is installed in /home/jaruga/yEd. And the symbolic link is linked there. It's not convenient especially to know the installed app's version and to install multiple versions.
- yEd app:
/home/jaruga/yEd - Symbolic link:
/home/jaruga/.local/bin/yEd->/home/jaruga/yEd/yEd
So, I changed the directory and the symbolic link manually below. The alias alias yed='yEd' is convenient.
- yEd app:
/home/jaruga/.local/yEd-3.22 - Symbolic link:
/home/jaruga/.local/bin/yEd->/home/jaruga/.local/yEd-3.22/yEd
How to start
$ yEd &
