How To Install cinnamon on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cinnamon
on CentOS 7.
What is cinnamon
Cinnamon is a Linux desktop which provides advanced innovative features and a traditional user experience. The desktop layout is similar to Gnome 2. The underlying technology is forked from Gnome Shell. The emphasis is put on making users feel at home and providing them with an easy to use and comfortable desktop experience.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install cinnamon
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cinnamon.
Install cinnamon on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install cinnamon
using yum
by running the following command:
Install cinnamon on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install cinnamon
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall cinnamon on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the cinnamon
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cinnamon
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.