Posts Tagged ‘ppa’
Install Cinnamon desktop on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin
To install Linux Mint’s Cinnamon desktop on Ubuntu 12.04 you have to add the appropriate ppa first. Open a terminal and enter following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cinnamon
To apply Cinnamon, log out of your current desktop session and set Cinnamon as desktop environment on the login screen. Remember that your machine needs graphical 3D support to run Cinnamon correctly.
Install Gimp 2.8 on Ubuntu 12.04 and Mint 13
Don’t do this on prior releases of the operating systems. There are reports of severe crashes (for me, there were only dependency errors but you never know)!
Gimp version 2.8 is now available as sourcecode and via ppa. It comes with an often requested single-window mode and a few other features. If you have any earlier versions of Gimp installed, purge those first:
sudo apt-get purge gimp*
To install it, add the ppa to your sources, update the apt database and install it:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gimp
To enable single-window mode, open Gimp and select Windows > Single-Window Mode
Install Opera on Ubuntu Linux
Opera is not present in the default Ubuntu repositories, however it is available by ppa. Open a terminal and run the following commands:
wget -O – http://deb.opera.com/archive.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo sh -c ‘echo “deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ stable non-free” >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/opera.list’
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install opera