How to install Cinnamon Desktop on Fedora 23

To install Cinnamon Desktop on Fedora 23

Cinnamon desktop is best known as one of the two default desktops for Linux Mint. It is now available directly as part of Debian 8 and Fedora 22. Cinnamon will work with many other distros as well but not as compared to fedora & Debian. In this article we can see how to install in fedora system.

Update your system checking updates and installing them using YUM Command

Open a terminal, right clicking on your desktop and click on Open Terminal Here. Execute YUM Command by root user. Type ' su' command from terminal and update your system with below command.

[root@linuxhelp user1]# yum update 
Yum command has been deprecated, redirecting to ' /usr/bin/dnf update' .
See ' man dnf'  and ' man yum2dnf'  for more information.
To transfer transaction metadata from yum to DNF, run:
' dnf install python-dnf-plugins-extras-migrate & &  dnf-2 migrate' 

Fedora 23 - x86_64 - Updates                     59 kB/s |  20 MB     05:45    
Fedora 23 - x86_64                               59 kB/s |  43 MB     12:17   
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xorg-x11-server-common.x86_64 1.18.1-3.fc23                                   
  xorg-x11-server-utils.x86_64 7.7-17.fc23                                      
  xorg-x11-xkb-utils.x86_64 7.7-16.fc23                                         
  zenity.x86_64 3.18.1.1-1.fc23                                                 

Complete!

To install Cinnamon Desktop

[root@linuxhelp user1]#yum -y install cinnamon

You can Log out from your current desktop.

Switch desktop in the login screen. Click session and select Cinnamon

Cinnamon Screen

To change Cinnamon configuration

Click on icon ^ in the task bar and go to Settings.