Flowchart-ish tool

[Paul Smith]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Steven Stern
<subscribed-lists at sterndata.com> wrote:
>> I am trying to create a visual aid for some complex relationships (not
>> software, sorry). It would seem that some flowchart, or similar
>> software, might assist. I need to show the relationships between items
>> and groups of items, and I really don't want to do it by hand.
>>
>> Ideally I would identify a group of items as a group, so they could be
>> place near one another or marked with the same color, or similar. Then I
>> want to describe the relationship between them, (ex: 'depends on', or
>> 'funds') and the relationship might look different from each end. Simple
>> example A and B, from A B has relation 'child' while from B A has
>> relation 'parent'. That term 'properties' seems to be used in some
>> things I found, but I haven't gotten a solution.
>>
>> Does this ring a bell with anyone? Or even suggest a good manual tool,
>> neither xfig nor gimp is ideal.
>>
> You might be able to do this  in a mind-map tool like XMind.
> http://xmind.net

Is there some rpm of XMind available?

Paul