Install Cinnamon 3.2 on Ubuntu from a Stable PPA

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Cinnamon 3.2 was released a couple ofweeks back ― and many of you have been itching to try it out on Ubuntu.

Ifyou wanted to sample the latesttasty changes offered up in the latestCinnamon desktop release, and didn’t want to use a testing PPA , you no longer need to.

The Embrosyn PPA is thequasi-official way to install Cinnamon on Ubuntu and other *buntu-based distributions. And it’s just been updated with the very latest release.

Yup, you can now install Cinnamon 3.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and above, without risking any major breakages.

What’s New in Cinnamon 3.2?

The Cinnamon 3.2 update delivers a robustset of changes to the desktop, includingsupport for vertical panels, audible notifications, and sleek new menu animations.

Other features n’ fixesinclude:

Support for vertical panels “Peek at desktop” feature Support for audible notifications Improved keyboard apple Option toshow percentage next to volume slider Menu animation settings Improved workspace switcher ‘Simplified’ wallpaper manager Applet layout tweaks Various bug fixes

You can check out the full changelog for the comprehensivelist of changes and fixes in this release.

How to install Cinnamon 3.2 inUbuntu
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If you’re reading this article from ubuntu 16.04 LTS orU buntu 16.10, you can add the Embrosyn Cinnamon PPA by running the following commands in a new Terminal window:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:embrosyn/cinnamon sudo apt update && sudo apt install cinnamon

The latter command will pull down and install the Cinnamon desktop session and all of its required dependencies. Once installation is complete, log out of Unity (or whichever desktop session you’re using) andlog back in, remembering to select the ‘Cinnamon’ session from the Unity Greeter.