{"id":4987,"date":"2015-05-21T06:32:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T06:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=4987"},"modified":"2016-05-14T12:07:38","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T12:07:38","slug":"install-cinnamon-2-6-in-ubuntu-15-0414-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2015\/05\/install-cinnamon-2-6-in-ubuntu-15-0414-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Cinnamon 2.6 in Ubuntu 15.04\/14.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/cinnamon-icon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/cinnamon-icon.jpg\" alt=\"Cinnamon 2.6\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/cinnamon-icon.jpg 240w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/cinnamon-icon-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 2.6 release of Mint&#8217;s Cinnamon desktop environment has reached feature-freeze. The stable release is planned for the end of this month.<\/p>\n<p>Cinnamon 2.6 brings some exciting new features, include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>support for systemd<\/li>\n<li>panel support for multiple monitors<\/li>\n<li>support for new GTK headerbar (client-side decorations)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cinnamon 2.6 will be made into the Romeo repositories for Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca and LMDE 2 Betsy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/cinnamon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/cinnamon-600x386.jpg\" alt=\"cinnamon\" width=\"600\" height=\"386\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4988\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/cinnamon-600x386.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/cinnamon-450x289.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/cinnamon.jpg 1022w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Install Cinnamon 2.6 in Ubuntu:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>For Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 15.04 users, before it&#8217;s made into a stable PPA <i>(I&#8217;ll update the PP once a stable PPA is available)<\/i> you can now try out the new release through the Gwendal LE BIHAN&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~gwendal-lebihan-dev\/+archive\/ubuntu\/cinnamon-nightly\" target=\"_blank\">nightly build PPA <\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"arconix-box arconix-box-yellow\"><i class='fa fa-2x pull-left fa-lightbulb-o'><\/i><div class=\"arconix-box-content\">UPDATE: For Ubuntu 14.10 and Ubuntu 15.04, there&#8217;s now a <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~embrosyn\/+archive\/ubuntu\/cinnamon\" target=\"_blank\">stable PPA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:embrosyn\/cinnamon\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get update\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get install cinnamon<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>To add the PPA, open terminal and run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev\/cinnamon-nightly<\/pre>\n<p>Then update system package cache and install the desktop environment via commands:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get install cinnamon<\/pre>\n<p>Once installed, log out and select login with Cinnamon.<\/p>\n<p><b>(Optional)<\/b> To remove this DE, run:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get purge cinnamon* nemo-* cjs muffin* python-nemo<\/pre>\n<p>Also remove the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev\/cinnamon-nightly<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2.6 release of Mint&#8217;s Cinnamon desktop environment has reached feature-freeze. The stable release is planned for the end of this month. Cinnamon 2.6 brings some exciting new features, include: support for systemd panel support for multiple monitors support for new GTK headerbar (client-side decorations) Cinnamon 2.6 will be made into the Romeo repositories for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[352],"class_list":["post-4987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-cinnamon"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}