Flowchart and diagram drawing program for Linux

Presumption

Gnome 3 desktop environment is installed.

DIA

If you are looking to draw a flowchart or diagram for your documentation on Linux you may find “dia” project very interesting, the diagram drawing program (dia) is part of gnome project.

The man description says:

"Dia is used to create diagrams. Dia has a number of basic tools, like lines and boxes but can also dynamically load sheets. A sheet is a collection of tools that are used in a certain type of diagram.

Most diagram objects in Dia has handles. Lines can be connected to these handles and this way graph structures can be formed. When objects are moved or resized the connections will follow the objects.

Diagrams drawn in Dia can be exported PostScript."

After using it for hours i believed that is is good tool and it fits my need for drawing flowcharts of my software.

Installation

$ mkdir /tmp/dia

$ cd /tmp/dia/

$ wget ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/dia/0.96/dia-0.96.1.tar.bz2 # size is 4.2 MB

$ tar xfv dia-0.96.1.tar.bz2

$ cd dia-0.96.1/

$ ./autogen.sh

$ make

$ sudo make install

now the program is installed and you can run it from terminal by writing $ dia or by clicking ALT+F2 then write “dia" and hit enter.