Nice, thanks.
Arrrgh I meant as a repo (i.e. singluar form=repository=repo, plural
obviously repositories=repos)
Sure, MagicB, but it is still much better to trust the source code than a
precompiled binary.
Here's a few tricks
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/formatting-trisquel-forum
Thanks. Once I get some spare time I'll give it a try. I've never done it
before so it's exiting.
I've often heard people talk about sandboxes but I'm not sure of what it is
exactly. I imagine that is a kind of safe area, where your doings can't
affect the real system. Looking at the
A sandbox stops some program from affecting the rest of the system. If you
don't trust a process, such as JavaScript running in a web browser this is a
good thing. There is even an OS called Qubes that runs instances of the Xen
hypervisor to sandbox everything. Just looking at the makefile
Sorry, correction:
but withOUT instructions of how to install it
Look at the source code, and use widely used programs that will have been
checked by many people?
Thanks for the correction (and please keep them coming). I'll remeber that
Totally forgiven.
As it seems you like linguistic details (I didn't even think of it) it might
be correct to use 'repos' instead of 'a repo' as the original sentence goes:
"Regular package repositories are usually referred to simply as repo."
By the way, how do you type in bold?
I cannot vouch for the PPAs. So you could try building it if you are
comfortable with it. You get the latest version from Git and from a
trustworthy source.
Alternatively, try GNOME Fallback, KDE, or MATE. MATE is closest to Cinnamon,
and is built from the old GNOME 2 codebase. There is an
A good rule is: if you know how to then compile, rather than trusting a third
party.
The current version of Mint is based on the same Ubuntu LTS (at least from
what I can tell). So packages will probably not break. Be careful not to
upgrade any more packages than is necessary to install Cinnamon though. That
could cause conflicts when you remove the Mint repositories. See my
But you can 'trust but verify'!
Please explain
It is not in the repository (yet). So you can either try some untrusted PPA
(there is not an official PPA) or you can build it yourself. I found this
article about how to install it, and it has various options:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/94201/how-do-i-install-the-cinnamon-desktop
If
Thanks
I've never tried building from source and have no idea how hard/difficult it
is. If it doesn't need a computer engineers exam I might try.
I also have no qualifications to tell which of the options you link to is the
best. I'll have to search some more but if you have an advice I
Do you have suggestions for easy and trustworthy how tos?
We don't call repos PPAs unless they're those things on launchpad.net called
PPAs.
Regular package repositories are usually referred to simply as repo.
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
?
I could not find the article I used months ago... It's by the Cinnamon
developers:
http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2013/10/how-to-build-and-install-the-latest-cinnamon-from-git/
It shows you how to build one part and then you use the same method for the
rest. I recall you will also need to
MATE is not an option but thanks.
I'll give it a try with the Mint PPA. If that fails I'll go the rough way to
get it.
Is there a chance that Cinnamon DE will be added to Trisquel PPA?
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
This PPA is better and supports Trisquel 7:
https://launchpad.net/~moorkai/+archive/ubuntu/cinnamon
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