Requirements

  • You need java 21 or later and gradle >= 9.0

Download gradle

  • Download gradle: https://gradle.org/releases/
  • Unzip to your home directory

Clone the freeplane repository

git clone https://github.com/freeplane/freeplane.git
cd freeplane

Run gradle

  • Gradle wrapper files are intentionally not committed to the sources but git ignored so that you can add them yourself if you need them.

$ ~/Downloads/gradle-9.2.1/bin/gradle build

Run freeplane

cd BIN
./freeplane.sh # linux
freeplane.bat

Create package

~/Downloads/gradle-9.2.1/bin/gradle clean build dist
ls DIST

Configuring an IDE