{"id":8348,"date":"2018-11-13T17:07:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T17:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=8348"},"modified":"2019-06-02T16:40:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T16:40:55","slug":"install-cinnamon-desktop-4-0-ubuntu-18-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/11\/install-cinnamon-desktop-4-0-ubuntu-18-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Cinnamon Desktop 4.0 via PPA 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>Linux Mint&#8217;s Cinnamon desktop has tagged its 4.0 release for more than a weeks. For those who want to try out new desktop release, here&#8217;s how to install Cinnamon 4.0 in Ubuntu 18.04.<\/p>\n<p>Cinnamon 4.0 is not officially announced at the moment. It&#8217;s mentioned in the last Linux Mint blog post:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New panel layout, you&#8217;ll have the option to embrace the change or to click a button to make Cinnamon look just like it did before.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to define a different icon size for each of the three panel zones<\/li>\n<li>Mint-Y-Dark now is the default Cinnamon theme.<\/li>\n<li>Support for mainline kernels was added to the Update Manager.<\/li>\n<li>reduced system memory consumption, and various other changes. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/linuxmint19-cinnamon-600x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7885\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/linuxmint19-cinnamon-600x375.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/linuxmint19-cinnamon-450x281.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/linuxmint19-cinnamon-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/linuxmint19-cinnamon.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Install Cinnamon 4.0 via PPA in Ubuntu 18.04:<\/h4>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T keyboard shortcut, or from application launcher. When it opens, run command to add <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~embrosyn\/+archive\/ubuntu\/cinnamon\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the PPA<\/a>:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:embrosyn\/cinnamon<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type your password (no asterisks feedback) for sudo prompt and hit Enter to continue.<\/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 install Cinnamon desktop via command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt install cinnamon<\/pre>\n<p>Once installed, log out and login with Cinnamon session.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/gdm-cinnamon-450x258.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"258\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/gdm-cinnamon-450x258.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/gdm-cinnamon-768x440.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/gdm-cinnamon-600x343.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/gdm-cinnamon.jpg 788w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Uninstall:<\/h4>\n<p>To remove Cinnamon desktop, run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt remove --autoremove cinnamon cinnamon-desktop-data<\/pre>\n<p>To remove the PPA, either go to Software &#038; Updates -> Other Software, or run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:embrosyn\/cinnamon<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linux Mint&#8217;s Cinnamon desktop has tagged its 4.0 release for more than a weeks. For those who want to try out new desktop release, here&#8217;s how to install Cinnamon 4.0 in Ubuntu 18.04. Cinnamon 4.0 is not officially announced at the moment. It&#8217;s mentioned in the last Linux Mint blog post: New panel layout, you&#8217;ll [&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-8348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-cinnamon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8348","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=8348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}