How To Install cinnamon-common on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cinnamon-common
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is cinnamon-common
cinnamon-common is:
Cinnamon is a desktop environment 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.
This package contains the data files needed by Cinnamon
Package: cinnamon-common Architecture: all Version: 4.4.8-4 Priority: optional Section: universe/x11 Source: cinnamon Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian Cinnamon Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 6737 Depends: gettext, gir1.2-cinnamondesktop-3.0 (>= 4.4), gir1.2-meta-muffin-0.0 (>= 4.4), libglib2.0-bin, python3-xapp, xdg-utils, dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend, python3:any Breaks: cinnamon (« 3.6.7-1~) Replaces: cinnamon (« 3.6.7-1~) Filename: pool/universe/c/cinnamon/cinnamon-common_4.4.8-4_all.deb Size: 1316956 MD5sum: 60df45c3b0de11b2db3648c31c6e8e46 SHA1: 5772a80d024de610fd9c35364b1df8b3bbeafa5b SHA256: 8936fb5766b2d97b684bd28d2cd703747c6057a57bee829540916e8c43ad3588 Homepage: http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com Description-en: Innovative and comfortable desktop (Common data files) Cinnamon is a desktop environment 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.
This package contains the data files needed by Cinnamon
There are three methods to install cinnamon-common
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install cinnamon-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cinnamon-common
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cinnamon-common
Install cinnamon-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cinnamon-common
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cinnamon-common
Install cinnamon-common Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install cinnamon-common
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cinnamon-common
How To Uninstall cinnamon-common on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the cinnamon-common
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cinnamon-common
Uninstall cinnamon-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cinnamon-common
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cinnamon-common
Remove cinnamon-common Configurations and Data
To remove cinnamon-common
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cinnamon-common
Remove cinnamon-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cinnamon-common
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cinnamon-common
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cinnamon-common
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.