Fedora/Cinnamon desktop
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- Cinnamon Desktop
- Updated 2015/02/01
f23 Cinnamon live spin
- Only boots from EFI
Alternate to netinstall (bfo.iso)
- As of 06/27/2015 boot.iso fails and lives only boot in EFI; so we need to have an alternate installer to test rawhide builds.
- http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/bfo/bfo.iso
- starts in fedora server
- Change source to:
References
Testing
- An advantage is this is based on f22 server so less complex password is accepted
- f22 Virtualbox
- f23 workstation x86_64
- f23 cinnamon x86_64 + Plasma from yumex-dnf
- USB external HD from CD
- f23 MATE and extras
f22 Cinnamon live spin
- 5/2/2015
- I would like to submit a Cinnamon spin for review and possible inclusion in future Fedora releases, though I am sure it is too late to include in F22. It is a spin simply using the Cinnamon desktop environment group, and I have been working with the Cinnamon maintainers to fix any issues that have come up in F21 or F22 beta. The proposed spin page is here:
- The kickstart files are available in this repository:
- I have uploaded ISOs for both F21 and F22 beta here:
-Dan Book
f21 Cinnamon Live
- Proposed Fedora 21 Spin
- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cinnamon_Spin
- Information: irc freenode #fedora-mate
Download
Add Sugar to Cinnamon Desktop
- in root terminal:
yum install sugar-runner @sugar-desktop
f21-Cinnamon-Sugar-Remix
- Root terminal
yum install livecd-tools spin-kickstarts setenforce 0
Kickstart files
- Copy to Home
edit fedora-cinnamon-packages.ks
- Added (@sugar-desktop and sugar-runner)
%packages @networkmanager-submodules @cinnamon-desktop @libreoffice # added by tg @sugar-desktop sugar-runner # unlock default keyring. FIXME: Should probably be done in comps gnome-keyring-pam # save some space -desktop-backgrounds-basic -PackageKit* # we switched to yumex, so we don't need this %
Create Remix
- root terminal
livecd-creator \ --config=/home/(user)/fedora-livecd-cinnamon.ks \ --fslabel=fedora_live_cinnamon_soas_Remix --cache=/var/cache/live --verbose
- completed when this line appears:
Setting supported flag to 0
- the resulting fedora_live_cinnamon_soas_Remix.iso is in /home/(user)/
Cinnamon Installed as a Second Desktop
- Available in several Linux OS's
- f20 Cinnamon 2nd DE
- Download Net installer: http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/20/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-20-x86_64-netinst.iso :Select Cinnamon
- Add as a second Desktop Environment
yum install @cinnamon