Ubuntu 18.04 Unable to launch gephi-0.9.2
I downloaded gephi from its official website. Then I followed the steps to install gephi.
cd gephi-0.9.2/bin
./gephi
However, nothing happended.
This issue tells us that gephi is only compatible with java8, so I do the following steps:
-
Download java8 with
sudo apt install openjdk-8-jdk -
edit gephi.conf (which is located in
gephi-0.9.2/etc/gephi.conf) withjdkhome="/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64"
I have also seen discussion about openjdk and oraclejdk, while I didn’t dig into this question. It worked, that’s enough:)
Here is another issue which came in the middle step:
Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
This issue is solved by
sudo apt install libcanberra-gtk-module
具体使用方法
具体的使用方法参见官方文档，这个官方文档很短，边看边做的话花个一个多小时就可以了解到gephi的使用方法。可以看出来这个软件有很多类似快捷键的操作方法，比如拖动的时候需要用右键拖。这样或许也可以让界面看起来整洁一些。以下记录一些常用的东西。并非文档翻译。
但是同时也需要注意的是，gephi还存在着很多的bug，这一点可以从github repo的issue中看出，如果在看文档的时候发现有一些无法解决的问题，可能是gephi的问题。
如何拖动
放大缩小： 鼠标滚轮
拖动图：右键拖动
如何调整节点大小
如何调整节点与节点标签的距离
如何只展示一部分的label
参考论坛上的这个帖子