Cinnamon 4 Desktop on Ubuntu 19.04 Minimal Install

Cinnamon 4 Desktop on Ubuntu 19.04 Minimal Install.md

Cinnamon 4 Desktop on Ubuntu 19.04 Minimal Install

Objective

Install the Cinnamon 4 desktop environment on a minimal install of Ubuntu 19.04. It is possible (and easier) to install Cinnamon without this process but you end up with many GNOME-specific packages and applications you may not want.

Step 1 - Download Ubuntu Network Installer

Ubuntu 19.04 Network Installer

Step 2 - Install Minimal Ubuntu 19.04 System

Either burn to USB for bare-metal install or create a virtual machine.

• balenaEtcher
• Oracle VM VirtualBox

Step 3 - Install software-properties-common

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install software-properties-common

Step 4 - Add the Cinnamon PPA

Thanks to embrosyn for making the Cinnamon 4 PPA available.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:embrosyn/cinnamon

Step 5 - Install Cinnamon

sudo apt update
sudo apt install cinnamon

This may take a while depending on your internet connection.

Step 6 - Fix the network applet if needed

As described on StackExchange:

• Change /etc/netplan/01-netcfg.yaml:

  • Rename 01-netcfg.yaml to 01-netcfg.yaml.HOLD for backup purposes.
  • sudo mv /etc/netplan/01-netcfg.yaml /etc/netplan/01-netcfg.yaml.HOLD

• Create a new file called /etc/netplan/config.yaml...

  • sudo nano /etc/netplan/config.yaml
  • with the following content:

network:
  version: 2
  renderer: NetworkManager

• sudo netplan --debug generate # generate new config files

• sudo netplan apply # apply new configuration

• reboot # reboot the computer

• Use the standard NetworkManager menu to configure your "Wired Connection".

• Verify Internet operation.

Step 7 - Basic Setup

There are very few packages installed so you will likely want to do things like install themes, wallpapers and some applications. I like the Linux Mint themes personally. If you would like to install them I have a gist for that.

Hi, you forgot the install command at "sudo apt cinnamon"
The right one is:
sudo apt install cinnamon

Thanks for sharing

Hi, you forgot the install command at "sudo apt cinnamon"
The right one is:
sudo apt install cinnamon

Thanks for sharing

Fixed! Thanks for noticing and suggesting the correction.