For Cinnamon
Cinnamon is a GTK+
3-based desktop environment. It originally started as a fork of the
GNOME Shell, the successor of the GTK+2-based GNOME Panel, and was
initially developed by (and for) Linux Mint.Because Cinnamon intends
to implement a different graphical user interface (GUI) than GNOME,
many of the GNOME Core Applications were forked.
Add the following to
/etc/apt/sources.list:
deb
http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
Run each of the
following lines separately:
#
apt-get update
#
apt-get install linuxmint-keyring
#
apt-get update
#
apt-get install cinnamon cinnamon-session cinnamon-settings
That’s it, log out of
your current session, select Cinnamon
For Mate
MATE (Spanish
pronunciation: ˈmate) is a desktop environment forked from the
now-unmaintained code base of GNOME 2. It is named after the South
American plant Yerba mate and tea made from the herb, mate. The use
of a new name (“MATE” instead of “GNOME”) avoids conflicts
with GNOME 3 components.
Add the following to
/etc/apt/sources.list:
# main repository
deb
http://repo.mate-desktop.org/debian wheezy main
#
install mate-archive-keyring
#
apt-key add mate-archive-keyring.gpg
#
apt-get update
Please note that in
normal circumstances installing unauthenticated packages from unknown
repositories may be a security risk
#
apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install
mate-archive-keyring
#
apt-get update
Now to install MATE
choose 1 of the 3 apt-get lines below.
this installs the base
packages
#
apt-get install mate-core
this to install
mate-core and more extras
#
apt-get install mate-desktop-environment
this to install
mate-core + mate-desktop-environment and even more extras.
#
apt-get install mate-desktop-environment-extra
That’s it, log out of
your current session, select Mate as your default session and then
log back in.
