Installing cinnamon

[Colin Law]

On 10 December 2012 10:47, Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il> wrote:
> It would be wiser to make the 'add-apt-repository' run an 'apt-get update'
> right after adding the key...

That sounds like a good plan.  See
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/+bug/821723
If we all add ourselves to this then maybe it might happen.
/usr/bin/apt-add-repository is a python script so it should only need
someone with slightly better scripting skills than myself to submit a
patch to either do the update automatically or add a switch as
suggested by this bug.  There are likely people on this list who could
easily formulate a patch.

Colin

>
> On Dec 8, 2012 11:29 AM, "Colin Law" <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 8 December 2012 02:38, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > On 12/07/2012 07:21 PM, Steve Pearce wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On 08/12/12 02:08, JD wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> The cinnamon web page
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> https://launchpad.net/~gwendal-lebihan-dev/+archive/cinnamon-stable?field.series_filter=quantal
>> >>>
>> >>> asks the user to:
>> >>> add-apt-repository ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-stable
>> >>>
>> >>> Which I did.So I thought that's all I need in order to proceed
>> >>> and issue
>> >>>
>> >>> apt-get -y install cinnamon
>> >>>
>> >>> Well, it could not find it, and the web page does not elucidate
>> >>> any further.
>> >>>
>> >> JD
>> >>
>> >> You added the cinnamon PPA, but forgot to update your package lists.
>> >>
>> >> Try:
>> >>
>> >>    sudo apt-get update
>> >>    sudo apt-get install cinnamon
>> >>
>> >> I don't know much about Cinnamon, but I suspect it'll be available to
>> >> select at the login screen as an alternative to Unity.
>> >>
>> >> stevepdp
>> >>
>> > I see. Should not the web page have explained that instead
>> > of assuming every noob knows this?
>>
>> Most noobs would click on the link on that page "Read about
>> installing" where the instructions appear clear and include
>> instructions to run apt-get update.
>>
>> Colin
>>
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