This article will describe installing PlantUML which creates UML diagram from text file. Atom, Eclipse and Emacs have a module for PlantUML.
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1 Install PlantUML
Install plantuml.jar to /opt/plantuml.
#!/bin/sh -e sudo apt install -y graphviz default-jre sudo mkdir -p /opt/plantuml cd /opt/plantuml UML=http://sourceforge.net/projects/plantuml/files/plantuml.jar/download sudo curl -JLO ${UML} cat <<EOF | sudo tee /usr/local/bin/plantuml #!/bin/sh java -jar /opt/plantuml/plantuml.jar "\$@" EOF sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/plantuml
2 Create UML diagram
Create sequence.png from sequence.pu.
#!/bin/sh cat <<EOF > sequence.pu @startuml Alice -> Bob: test @enduml EOF plantuml sequence.pu