Re: Installing Cinnamon 2.0
Half off-topic.
On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 16:47 +0300, Alex Moonshine wrote:
> I'm using MATE right now and it's good, but from the perspective
> viewpoint, I'd stick with XFCE.
MATE from upstream does conflict with other software. This isn't good,
it's the most worse I can imagine and likely the reason that distros
aren't interested to add it to official repositories. MATE is the only
software I know available for Linux, that does conflict with common
software.
What Mate, Cinnamon and GNOME 3 still have in common is, that all three
do not provide the advantages provided by GNOME 2 and they all add
insane hard dependencies, at least PA and/or GVFS.
The DE that is the closest to GNOME 2, regarding to all aspects,
work-flow, "interaction" with other software, stability, needed
resources, IMO is Xfce 4, plus Xfce upstream doesn't insist to add
something as hard dependency that should be optional, so by default no
PA and no GVFS are needed.
+1 for Xfce
The OP want's to know how to get latest stable upstream release version
of Cinnamon for Debian, so IMO the "off-topic" notes we made are not
completely OT. At least a package maintainer has to ensure that
dependencies are fulfilled and that it's possible to install it while
other software is installed too. Installing Gnome completely parallel to
Mate e.g. is hardly possible.
How to compile the latest Cinnamon:
http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/955
Just ignore the chapter "Add APT sources repositories".
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