{"id":7838,"date":"2018-06-16T17:11:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T17:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7838"},"modified":"2018-06-17T16:06:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T16:06:22","slug":"install-cinnamon-desktop-3-8-ubuntu-18-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/06\/install-cinnamon-desktop-3-8-ubuntu-18-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Cinnamon Desktop 3.8 in Ubuntu 18.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/mint_logo.png\" alt=\"Cinnamon\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5835\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For those who want to try out the latest Cinnamon Desktop 3.8, without downloading Linux Mint 19, here&#8217;s how to install Cinnamon 3.8.x via PPA in Ubuntu 18.04.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=3557\" target=\"_blank\">Cinnamon 3.8<\/a> will be included in the upcoming Linux Mint 19. This Gnome based desktop environment has received better support for GTK+ 3.22 and client-side decorated windows, fully ported to Python 3, backported various changes from upstream GNOME, and more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/cinnamon-desktop.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/cinnamon-desktop-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/cinnamon-desktop-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/cinnamon-desktop-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/cinnamon-desktop-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/cinnamon-desktop.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, a <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~embrosyn\/+archive\/ubuntu\/cinnamon\/\" target=\"_blank\">stable PPA<\/a> has built the Cinnamon 3.8 packages, so the desktop can be easily installed via following steps.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal either via <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> keyboard shortcuts, or by searching for &#8216;Terminal&#8217; from app launcher. When it opens, run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:embrosyn\/cinnamon<\/pre>\n<p><i>Input your password (no visual feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter. Read the PPA description and finally hit Enter to add the PPA.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/cinnamon-ppa-bionic-600x88.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"88\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/cinnamon-ppa-bionic-600x88.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/cinnamon-ppa-bionic-450x66.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/cinnamon-ppa-bionic.jpg 748w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Then run command to install Cinnamon Desktop 3.8:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get install cinnamon<\/pre>\n<p><b>3.<\/b> Finally restart your computer.  When you&#8217;re at Gnome login screen, click on your username and then click the <b>gear<\/b> button to select &#8216;<b>Cinnamon<\/b>&#8216; desktop session.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/cinnamon-gdm-450x238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"238\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/cinnamon-gdm-450x238.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/cinnamon-gdm-600x317.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/cinnamon-gdm.jpg 617w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Uninstall:<\/h4>\n<p>To remove Cinnamon desktop, open terminal and run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get remove --autoremove cinnamon cinnamon-*<\/pre>\n<p>And launch <b>Software &#038; Updates<\/b> then navigate to <b>Other Software<\/b> tab to remove PPAs.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who want to try out the latest Cinnamon Desktop 3.8, without downloading Linux Mint 19, here&#8217;s how to install Cinnamon 3.8.x via PPA in Ubuntu 18.04. Cinnamon 3.8 will be included in the upcoming Linux Mint 19. This Gnome based desktop environment has received better support for GTK+ 3.22 and client-side decorated windows, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[352],"class_list":["post-7838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-cinnamon"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7838","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=7838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}