--- title: "Installing yEd on Fedora or RHEL" id: "2920" type: "post" slug: "fedora-rhel-yed-install" published_at: "2012-05-25T22:34:23+00:00" modified_at: "2015-10-02T19:03:37+00:00" url: "https://johnpoelstra.com/fedora-rhel-yed-install/" markdown_url: "https://johnpoelstra.com/fedora-rhel-yed-install.md" excerpt: "My current diagramming program of choice is yEd. It definitely has it’s quirks, but I haven’t found anything this powerful that is free. I’ve been running it for a long time on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (64 bit) and......" taxonomy_category: - "Productivity" - "Software & Technology" taxonomy_post_tag: - "Fedora" - "RHEL" --- [Skip to the content](#site-content) [John Poelstra](https://johnpoelstra.com) ### Bringing order to chaos and clarity to confusion - [One Conversation](https://johnpoelstra.com/) - [Podcast](https://johnpoelstra.com/category/podcast/) - [Coaching for Directors](https://johnpoelstra.com/coach/) - [About](https://johnpoelstra.com/about/) Toggle search field - [One Conversation](https://johnpoelstra.com/) - [Podcast](https://johnpoelstra.com/category/podcast/) - [Coaching for Directors](https://johnpoelstra.com/coach/) - [About](https://johnpoelstra.com/about/) # [Installing yEd on Fedora or RHEL](https://johnpoelstra.com/fedora-rhel-yed-install/) My current diagramming program of choice is [yEd](http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html) . It definitely has it’s quirks, but I haven’t found anything this powerful that is free. I’ve been running it for a long time on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (64 bit) and recently did re-installs of Fedora 17 and RHEL 6 because I got a new notebook–more on that in another post. I got some weird errors trying to install it using the sh script. I’m not sure how I was able to previously install it, but apparently my old system had some of the prerequisite packages to make it work without me knowing it. All the details of the problem are at [http://yed.yworks.com/support/qa/17](http://yed.yworks.com/support/qa/17) [http://yed.yworks.com/support/qa/17](http://yed.yworks.com/support/qa/17) and is specific to 64bit systems. The short answer is that you’re best off downloading a zip of the jar file and running it from a command line. 1. [Download](http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_download.html) the Java zip version yEd 2. Unzip the file ``` $ unzip yEd-3.9.2.zip ``` 1. Run it ``` $ java -jar ./yed-3.9.2/yed.jar ``` Did anyone else find a way to make the sh installer work? #### John Poelstra John Poelstra coaches directors in finance and software. Trained through the Co-Active Training Institute, he has coached for more than 10 years, with over 520 clients and 3,150 sessions, including people at well-known Fortune 100 companies. In over 30 years of professional experience, he spent 25 in technology and finance: software testing, project management and team leadership at Red Hat and Dell/EMC, and finance as a bank auditor at Wells Fargo and a CPA at Grant Thornton. He hosts The John Poelstra Show podcast and is based in Portland, Oregon. [Author archive](https://johnpoelstra.com/author/john-poelstra/) [Author website](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-john-poelstra-show/id1130635146) May 25, 2012 [Productivity](https://johnpoelstra.com/category/productivity/) , [Software & Technology](https://johnpoelstra.com/category/software/) [Fedora](https://johnpoelstra.com/tag/fedora/) , [RHEL](https://johnpoelstra.com/tag/rhel/) [Previous post](https://johnpoelstra.com/rhc-tools-fedora/) [Next post](https://johnpoelstra.com/changing-habits/) ## 8 Comments 1. Juhan Leemet[September 17, 2015 at 8:38 am](https://johnpoelstra.com/fedora-rhel-yed-install/#comment-309193) Thx for tips. I downloaded jar zip into Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS which has: java version “1.7.0_79” OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.5.6) (7u79-2.5.6-0ubuntu1.14.04.1) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.79-b02, mixed mode) However, I found that I had to cd into the unZipped directory, else yED could not find any libraries, or anything. I like the look of the icons and shapes. Much better than some other packages with “kindergarten” drawing shapes, which look distinctly unprofessional. Thx, playing with it now. 2. Harold de Bruijn[November 3, 2014 at 1:26 am](https://johnpoelstra.com/fedora-rhel-yed-install/#comment-108016) To use open with in nautilus I added /usr/bin/yed — #!/usr/bin/env bash /usr/bin/java -jar /usr/share/yed/yed.jar -open $1 — and /usr/share/applications/yed.desktop — [Desktop Entry] Name=yEd Comment=yEd java graph editor Keywords=editor;java;graph; OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity; Exec=/usr/bin/yed %f Icon=/usr/share/yed/icons/yicon32.png StartupNotify=true Terminal=false Type=Application Categories=Java;graph — 3. Chris[June 27, 2013 at 5:40 am](https://johnpoelstra.com/fedora-rhel-yed-install/#comment-2724) I’m F18 and i tried installing and got errors, so everytime it gave me errors i would take that package it was looking for and sudo yum install package.i686. Yeah, it’s time consuming but it works. Now i have to figure out how to start the program. lol - John Poelstra[August 10, 2013 at 9:42 pm](https://johnpoelstra.com/fedora-rhel-yed-install/#comment-2799) I usually start it from a command line with: java -jar yed.jar 4. kdre[April 15, 2013 at 4:14 pm](https://johnpoelstra.com/fedora-rhel-yed-install/#comment-2627) A little late with my comment but I didn’t have any problem installing with the sh installer on F17 5. Rodehoed[May 29, 2012 at 1:24 am](https://johnpoelstra.com/fedora-rhel-yed-install/#comment-1696) Anways I do have the same problem on a 64-bit box. The zip way works as it should. 6. rodehoed[May 26, 2012 at 12:45 pm](https://johnpoelstra.com/fedora-rhel-yed-install/#comment-1686) Thanks for the tip John. Did not knew this one! 7. Pieter[May 26, 2012 at 4:09 am](https://johnpoelstra.com/fedora-rhel-yed-install/#comment-1685) I tried the webstart version on F16 and it started without any problem ### 1 Pingback 1. 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