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How To Install Cinnamon 2.4 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS & 14.10

Written by Rahul, Updated on February 20, 2015

Cinnamon 2.4 has been released on Nov 01, 2014. Cinnamon is a desktop environment based on GTK+ 3. The project originally started as a fork of the GNOME Shell. This article will help you for installing Cinnamon 2.4 in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.10 Systems.

Features of Cinnamon 2.4

      1. Completely redesigned the theme settings
      2. Redesigned Nemo tool bar and the presence of its button were made configurable.
      3. The desktop font is now configurable.
      4. Similar to Windows open home directory with “Super+e” key combination
      5. Cinnamon desktop now starts with a zoom animation.

Install Cinnamon 2.4 on Ubuntu

Cinnamon 2.4 is available under lestcape ppa with nightly updates. Use the following set of commands to install Cinnamon 2.4 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and 14.10.

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-nightly
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install cinnamon

After installing cinnamon, logout from current session and select cinnemon from login screen.

Install Cinnamon

Remove Cinnamon on Ubuntu

If you want you can also remove Cinnamon from Ubuntu system using following command.

$ sudo apt-get purge cinnamon

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I, Rahul Kumar am the founder and chief editor of TecAdmin.net. I am a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) and working as an IT professional since 2009..

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