Part II. Building Cinnamon: Cinnamon Tutorials

# Part II. Building Cinnamon

## Debian-based systems

### Add APT sources repositories

Open /etc/apt/sources.list. For each deb line, add the same line with deb replaced with deb-src. For instance, here's how it should look like in Linux Mint 13:

            deb http://packages.linuxmint.com maya main upstream import
            deb-src http://packages.linuxmint.com maya main upstream import

            deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main restricted universe multiverse
            deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main restricted universe multiverse

            deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates main restricted universe multiverse
            deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates main restricted universe multiverse

            deb http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise main
            deb-src http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise main

### Get build dependencies

Then we install the packages needed to compile the cinnamon stack. Run the following in a terminal (as root):

            apt-get update
            apt-get install dpkg-dev
            sudo apt-get build-dep cinnamon cinnamon-control-center cinnamon-desktop cinnamon-menus cinnamon-screensaver cinnamon-session cinnamon-settings-daemon cinnamon-translations cjs muffin nemo

Now get the latest git code for everything. Run (not as root):

            git clone git://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon.git
            git clone git://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-control-center.git
            git clone git://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-desktop.git
            git clone git://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-menus.git
            git clone git://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver.git
            git clone git://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-session.git
            git clone git://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-settings-daemon.git
            git clone git://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-translations.git
            git clone git://github.com/linuxmint/cjs.git
            git clone git://github.com/linuxmint/muffin.git
            git clone git://github.com/linuxmint/nemo.git

### Compile and install the stack

Build and install in the following order. Some packages are required to be installed prior to building later packages. See below for how to build and install.

            cinnamon-translations
            cinnamon-desktop
            cinnamon-menus
            **INSTALL PRECEDING PACKAGES**
            cinnamon-session
            cinnamon-settings-daemon
            cinnamon-screensaver
            cjs
            **INSTALL PRECEDING PACKAGES**
            cinnamon-control-center
            muffin
            **INSTALL PRECEDING PACKAGES**
            cinnamon
            nemo
            **INSTALL PRECEDING PACKAGES**

To build a package:

            cd *package-name*
            dpkg-buildpackage
            cd ..

To install a package:

            sudo dpkg -i *packages produced*

### Optional: Compiling from stable branch

The instructions above compile the Cinnamon stack from their "master" branch, which isn't always stable. To compile from the stable branch, instead of the usual building procedure, you need to to the following (for all packages):

            cd *package-name*
            git checkout stable
            dpkg-buildpackage
            cd ..