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Hi,

I'm looking for a soft to create ASCII diagram like (or better) https://asciiflow.com/

ideally:

  • FLOSS
  • for linux
  • offline
  • no javascript.

I've found a candidate ascii-draw and it's write in Python ❤️ 🐍, but it's only available as flatpack.. :/

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 minutes ago* (last edited 12 minutes ago)

This sent me down a rabbit hole since it's something I've half-considering for a while. I prefer text configuration rather than GUI so I ended up installing graph-easy on my debian laptop:

sudo apt install libgraph-easy-perl

and made a first attempt to diagram the power setup in my campervan

It's a perl module but the graph-easy wrapper makes it behave like any other CLI tool. cat or echo the config text to the wrapper and the graph pops out on STDOUT

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

cant you compile it also im sure also in the AUR if ur on a arch based distro

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

If flatpak is not an option, then you need to specify what packaging platforms are applicable.