Cinnamon is a Desktop Environment for the Linux operating system. Cinnamon is developed by the Linux mint community and licensed under GPL open source license. It is the most used desktop environment for workstations and servers like Enterprise Linux. It provide clean interface like Microsoft windows hence it the most popular type of desktop environment on the market. Cinnamon is developed using the Gnome as a base of OS hence it is lightweight and stable. Follow all the steps to easy install it. Cinnamon DE is the most prominent DE around the Linux. Best thing is it is managed by an Linux Mint communicate. Grantees updates are provided every month. Thanks to the reserved and easy UI. there are tons of wallpaper available for customization work.
What’s new in cinnamon
- Fast loading than previous versions
- Low chances of freezes and hangs
- Low memory consumption
- Minor change in Login Screen
- Added live screensavers
- Latest Panel
- Improved settings and user interfaces
- File manager (nemo) major changes and improvements
Pre Installation Dependencies
First of all Install EPEL Repositories
yum install epel-release -y
OR
yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/Fedora/epel//epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
After that Enable the EPEL Repository
yum clean all
yum update
Installation of Cinnamon
On Fedora
dnf install @cinnamon-desktop -y
dnf install cjs cinnamon-menus cinnamon-control-center cinnamon-translations cinnamon-settings-daemon cinnamon-screensaver nemo cinnamon-session muffin cinnamon-desktop cinnamon -y
On CentOS / RHEL / Oracle Linux
Finally Installing X window system and lightdm
yum groupinstall "X Window system" -y
yum install lightdm -y
After that Installing Cinnamon
yum install cjs cinnamon-menus cinnamon-control-center cinnamon-translations cinnamon-settings-daemon cinnamon-screensaver nemo cinnamon-session muffin cinnamon-desktop cinnamon -y
Lastly Adding Cinnamon Session
echo "exec /usr/bin/cinnamon-session" >> ~/.xinitrc
Final Starting the GUI
startx
Now Adding cinnamon GUI to systemd desktop run level 5 environment
ln -sf /lib/systemd/system/runlevel5.target /etc/systemd/system/default.target
Finally Reboot the system
reboot
Congratulations now you have installed the Cinnamon Desktop environment on Enterprise Linux.