Xmind8 does not work on Ubuntu 20.04

Rodrigo Assunção da Cunha

• June 27, 2020 14:39

Xmind8 does not work on Ubuntu 20.04 do you know how to solve it?

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  Stefan Lebelt

  • July 23, 2020 09:09

  I would be interested in some informations too! Xmind8 does not work with Java 11. Thats the reason, why it does not start on Ubuntu 20.04. Switching to Java 8 does the job but for me this is not an option as the Software we develop needs Java 11. Its very frustrating, that there are absolutely no information about what is going on with xmind 8. My assumption is that they just want to sell it as long as possible, which I can totally understand.

  But the bad things are

  1. ZEN can only be used having a subscription while xmind8 can be bought (thats the only option my company allows).

  2. ZEN does not support any task-management like task-infos, assignments, gant-charts etc.

   

  So Xmind8 stopped working for me and Xmind ZEN can not replace it! Sounds like a bad joke. I'm currently investigating alternatives as I'm no longer able to use Xmind (after 10 years!!!)

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  Adam

  • October 14, 2020 19:48
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  Hello,

  sadly I've install ubuntu 20.04 and have same problem. If I'm right XMIND8 not support higher version of java than 8.

  Steps:

  1. install lower version of supported java ~ java 8 on system

   - manual or for example use workaround :

   1.1 added for example this line into /etc/apt/sources.list

  deb http://cz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic main universe

  run :sudo apt-get update

  run :./setup.sh from Xmind folder which download and prepare java

  in the end again remove this line from that file and run again (we want download only this java not any other packages)

  run: sudo apt-get update

  1.2 fix any other problematic package(not sure if this will be necessary but I saw some errors in log with missing packages)

  sudo apt install libcanberra-gtk-module libcanberra-gtk3-modul

  sudo apt-get install libwebkitgtk-1.0-0

  2. add on the beginning into Xmind.ini these lines

  -vm
  /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin

  So the beginning of ini will be :

  -vm
  /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin
  -configuration
  ./configuration
  -data
  ../workspace

  ........

  Hope this help. It is not the best solution but some workaround until XMIND8 will not support higher java.

  Good Luck :)

  BR,

  A.

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  Martin Hansell

  • October 18, 2021 06:44

  Hi - did you manage to get this solved at all??

  Thanks!

  Martin

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