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Install Gephi on Linux

Gephi is a software package for graph visualization. Let’s install it on Linux.

Install Gephi

Don’t forget to update the release version in the URL, as well as in the resulting decompressed folder name.

wget https://github.com/gephi/gephi/releases/download/v0.9.5/gephi-0.9.5-linux-x64.tar.gz
tar -xzf gephi-0.9.5-linux-x64.tar.gz
sudo mv gephi-0.9.5 /opt/gephi

Now you could use it by running ./bin/gephi in the terminal.

Setup desktop entry

For an easier access, you could add a desktop entry to your menu.

In /home/$USER/.local/share/applications/gephi.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Gephi
Comment=Launch Gephi
Path=/opt/gephi/
Exec=/opt/gephi/bin/gephi
Terminal=true
Type=Application
Icon=gephi-tool-icon-200x200-1.jpg
StartupNotify=true
Categories=Development;Education;
Keywords=graph;

That’s it !

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