draw.io is an online diagramming web application designed for production-grade deployment, with full security process. You can use the freely accessible website of draw.io, or run draw.io locally using the official Docker image or use the Desktop versions for macOS, Linux and Windows.
In this guide we’ll install Desktop application which is an official electron build of draw.io. The draw.io Desktop is designed to be completely isolated from the Internet. All JavaScript files are self-contained, the Content Security Policy forbids running remotely loaded JavaScript.
There is no diagram data is ever sent externally or any analytics about app usage externally. Some functionality without JavaScript implementation locally do not work in the Desktop build, namely .vsd and Gliffy import.
Install draw.io Desktop on Ubuntu / Debian / Fedora
The pre-built binaries are available on the releases git section. Check the latest version that you’ll install in your machine.
Install draw.io Desktop on Ubuntu / Debian
For Debian and Ubuntu users, download the .deb build of draw.io.
sudo apt update
sudo apt -y install wget curl
curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/jgraph/drawio-desktop/releases/latest | grep browser_download_url | grep '\.deb' | cut -d '"' -f 4 | wget -i -
Then install it with the dpkg command.
sudo apt -f install ./drawio-amd64-*.deb
Install draw.io Desktop on Fedora
For Fedora Workstation, get the .rpm package of draw.io Desktop.
sudo dnf install wget curl -y
curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/jgraph/drawio-desktop/releases/latest | grep browser_download_url | grep '\.rpm' | cut -d '"' -f 4 | wget -i -
sudo yum install ./drawio-x86_64-*.rpm
Accept installation prompt.
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Install 6 Packages
Total size: 79 M
Total download size: 222 k
Installed size: 310 M
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Launching draw.io Desktop on Ubuntu / Debian / Fedora
Once the application is installed, you can launch it using the CLI:
$ drawio
Or from your Desktop environment applications launch section.
You can start to create your projects diagrams or import existing ones for editing.
There you go!.
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