Installation
Download 
  - Download the Java 
  Runtime Environment.  You need at least J2RE1.4! 
- 
  Download the Application 
Installation 
  - Install Java.
- Unpack FreeMind.
- On Windows, run FreeMind.exe; you'll probably want to 
  create a folder called freemind in "c:\Program Files\" and copy the contents 
  of unpacked directory there. If you want, create shortcut of FreeMind.exe on 
  your desktop. 
- On Unix, run freemind.sh. 
    On both Windows and Mac OS X, you can 
also simply double click the file freemind.jar located at the folder lib to 
execute the program.