{"id":5359,"date":"2015-10-21T14:34:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T14:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=5359"},"modified":"2015-10-21T14:34:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T14:34:28","slug":"install-cinnamon-2-8-ubuntu-1504","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2015\/10\/install-cinnamon-2-8-ubuntu-1504\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Cinnamon 2.8 in Ubuntu 15.04"},"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 2.8\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter 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>Linux Mint&#8217;s Desktop Environment Cinnamon 2.8 now is available for upgrade. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 15.04 via PPA.<\/p>\n<p>Cinnamon 2.8 will be officially released and announced at the end of October. Currently known changes in the 2.8 release:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Better sound applet:\n<p>The track info and media controls are now part of a new overlay which sits on top of the cover art. For supported players, a flat position bar is displayed underneath.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/sound-applet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/sound-applet-309x450.jpg\" alt=\"sound-applet\" width=\"309\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/sound-applet-309x450.jpg 309w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/sound-applet.jpg 377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Input controls, applications and output devices moved to the right-click context menu. Output devices now show their origins when multiple sound devices are detected (credits go to Cobinja for that).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/sound-applet-context.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/sound-applet-context-450x392.jpg\" alt=\"sound-applet-context\" width=\"450\" height=\"392\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/sound-applet-context-450x392.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/sound-applet-context.jpg 559w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Battery vendor\/model info &#8211; display the presence of manufacturer data in the power settings and applet.<\/li>\n<li>a couple of fixes to box pointers<\/li>\n<li>The workspace switcher applet now shows a visual representation of your workspaces, with little cubes for the windows inside of them<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Install Cinnamon 2.8 in Ubuntu:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a PPA repository that contains Cinnamon 2.8 for Ubuntu 15.04. Ubuntu 15.10 should be support soon once it&#8217;s officially released. Check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~moorkai\/+archive\/ubuntu\/cinnamon\/+packages\" target=\"_blank\">PPA page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>1. Add PPA.<\/p>\n<p>Open terminal from the Dash, App Launcher, or via Ctrl+Alt+T shortcut key. When it open, run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:moorkai\/cinnamon<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/cinnamon-28-ppa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/cinnamon-28-ppa-600x88.jpg\" alt=\"cinnamon-28-ppa\" width=\"600\" height=\"88\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/cinnamon-28-ppa-600x88.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/cinnamon-28-ppa-450x66.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/cinnamon-28-ppa.jpg 669w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. Update and install the DE via below commands one by one:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">sudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install cinnamon<\/pre>\n<p>Once installed, log out and select log back with Cinnamon session.<\/p>\n<p>3. (Optional) To remove Cinnamon, run commands:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove cinnamon\n\nsudo apt-get autoremove<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linux Mint&#8217;s Desktop Environment Cinnamon 2.8 now is available for upgrade. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 15.04 via PPA. Cinnamon 2.8 will be officially released and announced at the end of October. Currently known changes in the 2.8 release: Better sound applet: The track info and media controls are now part of a [&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":[352,1315],"class_list":["post-5359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-cinnamon","tag-install-cinnamon-in-ubuntu-15-10"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5359","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=5359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}