How to Add the Latest Cinnamon Desktop Ubuntu PPA for Ubuntu 14.04+ Gnu/Linux

Linux Ubuntu Latest Cinnamon Desktop Installation

Hi! The Tutorial shows you Step-by-Step How to Enable the Latest Cinnamon 3+ Apt PPA on Ubuntu 14.04-Trusty/14.10-Utopic/15.04-Vivid/15.10-Wily GNU+Linux Desktop.

This Cinnamon Nightly Ubuntu Apt PPA is not stable and so it may manifest some sort of Misbehavior.

The Cinnamon Desktop is an environment based on GTK+ 3. The project originally started as a fork of the GNOME Shell, i.e. a mere graphical shell. Cinnamon was initially developed by (and for) the Linux distribution Linux Mint.

1. Open a Shell Terminal Emulator Session
   Ctrl+Alt+t on Desktop
   (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)

   

   In case first see: Terminal QuickStart Guide.

2. Adding Ubuntu Cinnamon Apt PPA.

   sudo apt-add-repository ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-nightly

   If Got “User is Not in Sudoers file” then see: How to Enable sudo

   sudo apt-get update