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Steps to install and setup a cinnamon flavored crouton on a Chromebook Pixel
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# The next command will install a [raring] based ubuntu | |
# chroot, named [cinnamon] into the default directory | |
# with the targets [core], [cli-extra], [touch], and [keyboard] | |
sudo crouton -n cinnamon -r raring -t core,cli-extra,touch,keyboard | |
# Supply your new username and password like normal, and | |
# once that finishes, enter the chroot with: | |
sudo enter-chroot -n cinnamon | |
# and add the add-apt-repository with: | |
sudo apt-get update | |
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common python-software-properties | |
# then add the cinnamon PPA with: | |
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:embrosyn/cinnamon | |
sudo apt-get update | |
# then install cinnamon with: | |
sudo apt-get install cinnamon | |
# It will download and install a fair number of packages. | |
# Once it's done though, cinnamon will be ready to run. | |
# You can download the script I use to start cinnamon. | |
# first, we want to move to the download directory so it's available to chromeos: | |
cd ~/Downloads | |
# then download the gist from [https://gist.github.com/sohjsolwin/5934362] | |
wget https://gist.github.com/sohjsolwin/5934362/raw/f68fc0942798902a0bd48f40c17dc0cd5cf585ea/startcinnamon | |
# make it executable | |
sudo chmod +x startcinnamon | |
# then we exit the chroot and copy the cinnamon start script to the | |
# /usr/local/bin directory so it will run the same as the other chroot start scripts | |
exit | |
cd ~/Downloads | |
sudo mv ./startcinnamon /usr/local/bin | |
# then we start cinnamon | |
sudo startcinnamon -n cinnamon -b | |
# Ta Da!!! And now you have cinnamon croutons. Don't worry if it seems to take a bit to load at first, | |
# cinnamon can take a moment or two before it's ready to go. I usually switch back to ChromeOS and | |
# continue doing stuff for about 30 seconds before Cinnamon is ready to go. |
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