Ubuntu users are about to lose cinnamon

Many Ubuntu users have used third-party warehouses to experience cinnamon without installing Linux Mint, but there seems to be no cinnamon third-party warehouses in the near future. If you are using the Ubuntu system, you can now experience the Cinnamon desktop environment by adding a PPA source and installing the appropriate package. This allows you to get the same experience as the Linux Mint without actually installing it.

Unfortunately, the feature is about to disappear, but not because the primary maintainer does not want to continue to provide the software. Obviously, the Ubuntu warehouse will no longer retain the old version of the Gnome package, but cinnamon need these packages, which makes cinnamon to install through the PPA, even if possible, difficult.

"The stable PPA source is no longer maintained, and the PPA source updated every night is reserved for development only, but should not be used on any kind of production machine (it may be interrupted at any time)." ”

"Frankly, I don't have any other alternatives available to Ubuntu users, except to switch to other versions that support cinnamon." There are a lot of these versions out there, and I just want someone (eventually) to step on the Ubuntu side to provide the right package for its users. "said Gwendal Le Bihan--cinnamon, the defender of the pack.

This means that, from now on, only unstable PPA sources are available, but only for testing, and users should not deploy the source to a formal machine. And soon, you want to see cinnamon, you have to install Linux Mint (or arch), or you can compile it yourself.

If you still want to install Cinnamon,ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty Tahr) you can use an unstable PPA source. All you have to do is enter some commands under the terminal (you need root permission to do this):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-nightlysudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get Install

After the installation is complete, all you have to do is unregister the system and choose Cinnamon Desktop from the Welcome screen.

The Cinnamon desktop environment is developed as a branch of the gnome Shell to provide a concise and conservative alternative to what is currently available. Many users are dissatisfied with the gnome, unity, and KDE orientations and are looking for desktops that do not have too many offset routines.

It's possible that someone else would have built another PPA source that provided all the required packages, allowing cinnamon to work properly in the upcoming Ubuntu 14.10, but unlikely.

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