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I have Ubuntu 14.04. I installed Cinnamon like this:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lestcape/cinnamon
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install cinnamon

Also tried this.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lestcape/cinnamon
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cinnamon

All finished ok, but there was no result after reboot. Why?

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  • Did you choose the cinnamon session when you logged in?
    – terdon
    Jun 22, 2015 at 14:20
  • @terdon, there is no cinnamon session... Jun 22, 2015 at 14:39
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    You really not provide any helpful information. Is difficult be a magician to know what really happen in an open problem like this. Please, start the Unity desktop. Open a terminal and execute "cinnamon --restart" without quote. If cinnamon can start, your problem will be related with your display manager (lightdm), if not you will get the error. With an error, we can have an idea of what is happened.
    – lestcape
    Jun 23, 2015 at 4:20
  • The PPA in question doesn't exist any longer. VTC as not reproducible. Jan 21, 2017 at 15:30

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If you see no "Cinnamon" option after rebooting, that probably means you didn't install a cinnamon session. The simplest fix would probably be to install the full desktop environment:

sudo apt-get install cinnamon-desktop-environment

That will, however, bring in various other packages you might not want. I can't test this at the moment, but it might be enough to just install

sudo apt-get install cinnamon-session

The package names might be slightly different. To see what you have available, run

apt-cache search '^cinnamon'
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  • I think it will help! Thx! But I googled for a repository with cinnamon-desktop-environment. But all of them had no cinnamon-desktop-environment. Could you give me a name of a good repository for this? Jun 22, 2015 at 15:06
  • @ArthurKharkivskiy sorry, no idea, I don't use Ubuntu. Isn't it in the normal repos? If not, you could always use Mint's repo or just download the deb.
    – terdon
    Jun 22, 2015 at 15:08
  • How about this: askubuntu.com/questions/94201/… ? Jun 26, 2016 at 20:12

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