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quids
October 31st, 2013, 10:44 PM
Hi Guys & Girls
I've created a bash script to get a basic Cinnamon desktop functioning from Ubuntu Minimal.

http://paste.debian.net/63208/



wget http://paste.debian.net/download/63208
bash 63208

I've only been able to try it out in Ubuntu 13.10 Server in Virtualbox and on an Nvidia based system.
Personally I would have gone with Snow Linux for simplicity, but I expect there might be a fair few people who would find this script useful.

Known Issues


Some of the right-click menus don't open their assigned system control app
AMD Graphics driver installer is completely untested


I don't think Ubuntu Minimal ISO works with UEFI Secure Boot, so you'll have to use Ubuntu Server instead
Ubuntu Minimal: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD
Ubuntu Server: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/server

ian-weisser
November 1st, 2013, 03:23 AM
I see that the script seems to use a PPA (unsupported) version of Cinnamon instead of the (supported) Ubuntu Repository version.
Reason?

vasa1
November 1st, 2013, 03:39 AM
I see that the script seems to use a PPA (unsupported) version of Cinnamon instead of the (supported) Ubuntu Repository version.
Reason?
Check out http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2184396. I get the impression that the PPA is less outdated than the repo version.