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I am a big fan of mind-mapping software and, for years, I’ve been using Freemind.
I’ve noticed that a lot of people are moving towards XMind which, for some peculiar reason, is only available as a Debian (.deb) package. This is a bit problematic as I run Fedora and CentOS which are both based on RPM (Redhat Package Manager). Here is how I managed to convert the .deb package into an .rpm which can then be easily installed with a yum localinstall:
(1) Download the Debian package
(2) Create the RPM
alien -r --scripts package.deb
This command (alien) converts the Debian package into an RPM and makes sure that any scripts (pre- and post- installation) will run when the RPM file is installed. See this for more info.
(3) The issue is that the RPM will fail to install as there is a conflict with three directories: /, /usr/bin and /usr/lib. The solution is to install rpmrebuild and use it as follows:
rpmrebuild -pe xmind.rpm
Remove all lines for /, /usr/bin and /usr/lib in the %files section and you should then get an RPM. See this for more info.
