Install the Cinnamon Desktop

Cinnamon is a Gnome-Shell desktop fork. It is not strictly a Gnome-2 interface, although the developers aims are laudable - to produce a simpler more traditional desktop interface.

Development seems to be rapid. It is usable and certainly fun to play with with a growing number of extensions to install to extend the base installation.

How to install

for 13.04 & 13.10, 14.10 & later

Cinnamon is now available in the Universe repository

cinnamon 

Since it is in this repository, it is community maintained and thus it is up to the community to update the packages as and when new releases and bug-fixes are released.

For Ubuntu 14.04, there is currently no cinnamon packages in the Universe repository.

Via PPA for 11.10 and later

EDIT: 22/05/2014 - the PPA ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-stable has been removed or hidden from public view. I contacted the maintainer and the following is their reply:

The stable PPA is indeed no longer being maintained.

The nightly PPA is being kept for development purposes and should not be used on any sort of production machine (it can and will break at any time).

To be honest, I don't have an alternative to offer Ubuntu users at the moment, apart from switching to a distribution that does support Cinnamon. There are many such distributions out there, and I'm only hoping for someone to (finally) step up on Ubuntu's side to provide proper packages to its users.

EDIT: 25/04/14 - Two alternative PPA's have now been created - both claiming to enable thestable version of Cinnamon for Ubuntu users. I cannot vouch for the veracity of these PPAs

Option 1: 12.04 & 14.04 users only: đã test

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tsvetko.tsvetkov/cinnamon
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cinnamon

Option 2: 14.04 users only:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lestcape/cinnamon
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cinnamon

As an alternative you may wish to consider the unstable nightly automatic builds - please note Gwendal's warning above:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-nightly
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cinnamon

Option 3: In addition, you can also install cinnamon 2.2 in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and derivatives by adding Linux Mint 17 Qiana repository in your system. cách này chỉ cho bản ubuntu mới nhất

Open file /etc/apt/sources.list with nano command:

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Add the following line at the end of file /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ qiana main upstream import

Update the repository then install the authentication key

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linuxmint-keyring

Update the repository again and install Cinnamon 2.2:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cinnamon

After installation

Logout and select the Cinnamon session:

Enter you password and you'll see the Cinnamon desktop

... showing the traditional start type menu and applet design from Gnome-2

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Extensions/Applets thêm mấy cái icon trên thanh panel, kể cả nút start, mọi thứ trên panel đều gọi là Applets

The Cinnamon desktop uses the same philosophy as Gnome-Shell - functionality can be added to by installing Extensions & Applets.

Cinnamon uses its own Settings tool.

Cinnamon Settings

Cinnamon Applets

Similar to gnome-shell extensions - you can install applets from a dedicated Mint website.

Tham khảo bài sau:

How to install Cinnamon 2.4 (stable) in Ubuntu 14.04 via PPA

As I said above, there are 2 stable Cinnamon PPAs for Ubuntu 14.04 and you can use any of them. The PPAs are the same at the time I'm writing the article but they may provide updates at a different pace.

A. To add Tsvetko's Cinnamon PPA and install Cinnamon 2.4 (2.4.5 at the time I'm writing this article) stable in Ubuntu 14.04, use the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tsvetko.tsvetkov/cinnamon
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cinnamon

B. To add Lester's Cinnamon PPA and install Cinnamon 2.4 (2.4.5 at the time I'm writing the article) in Ubuntu 14.04, use the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lestcape/cinnamon
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cinnamon




Optional: to install the official Linux Mint GTK and icon themes, use the following command:

sudo apt-get install mint-themes




How to completely remove Cinnamon

If you want to remove Cinnamon (and its dependencies) installed by using the instructions above and remove the PPA, use the following commands:

A. If you've used Tsvetko's Cinnamon PPA:

sudo apt-get purge cinnamon* nemo-* cjs muffin* python-nemo
sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tsvetko_tsvetkov-cinnamon*.list
sudo apt-get update

B. If you've used Lester's Cinnamon PPA:

sudo apt-get purge cinnamon* nemo-* cjs muffin* python-nemo
sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lestcape-cinnamon*.list
sudo apt-get update