What happened to Freemind?
You might try Freeplane (sudo apt-get install freeplane). Freeplane is a Freemind fork from about 10 years ago that seems to be in more active development.
AnGus
You can still install FreeMind, and it still works great – in my case, under Ubuntu 18.10. It is no longer provided as a Debian package in the repositories, but as a distribution independent "Snap" package.
You can install it as follows:
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Assuming you want the latest beta version, which I'd recommend, run this command to install the FreeMind snap (as documented here):
sudo snap install freemind --edge
You can now already start FreeMind via the desktop icons and menu entries of your desktop environment.
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Add the following symlink to be able to start FreeMind from the terminal, Alt+F2 Run Dialog etc.:
sudo ln -s /snap/freemind/current/freemind/freemind.sh /usr/local/bin/freemind
And if you want to uninstall it again:
sudo snap remove freemind