Cinnamon DE on Trisquel
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Hi.
I'm totally new to Trisquel. I've been searching for a free OS that would suite my needs when it comes to functioning and being relatively straight forward. It seems I've found that in Trisquel.
So far the only thing I miss is the Cinnamon DE. I believe I found a thread concerning that, but with instructions of how to install it. Can anyone help? I like the Trisquel theme so if possible I wish to maintain that.
/jacob
Sorry, correction:
but withOUT instructions of how to install it
There is this PPA (that I do not use): https://launchpad.net/~tsvetko.tsvetkov/+archive/ubuntu/cinnamon
The usual warning applies: this software being out of the control of Trisquel, it may include proprietary software or even malware. Even if it does not now, it could tomorrow along an apparently trifling update.
If you decide to trust who is behind the PPA:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tsvetko.tsvetkov/cinnamon
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install cinnamon
Or you can add the PPA through the "Other Software" tab of "Software & Updates" in the "System settings" (and install it with the "Synaptic package manager").
Thanks.
Do you have any idea about how trustworthy any of the PPA's suggested via links from root_vegetable? This include the one you suggest
Nevermind, they have the same packages
By the way, is this feasible and sane:
1) install the Linux Mint repository
2) install cinnamon-desktop-environment
3) remove the Linux Mint repository
?
A good rule is: if you know how to then compile, rather than trusting a third party.
Well, you still need to trust whoever gave your the source code (the development team).
But you can 'trust but verify'!
Please explain
Sure, MagicB, but it is still much better to trust the source code than a precompiled binary.
Do you have suggestions for easy and trustworthy how tos?
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