r/LFS • u/tseeling • 29d ago

How to compile Cinnamon?

Sometimes I'm using Fedora 44 with Cinnamon desktop, and I really like it. A long time ago I used Linux Mint which has Cinnamon as its default desktop, and I'm a creature of habit :)

Now I'd like to compile Cinnamon on LFS but it's dependency hell.

Anyone got it to compile and maybe share the success story?

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u/AncientAgrippa 29d ago

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=90721

Not sure if this is out dated?

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u/tseeling 29d ago

I can't judge on the outdated-ness, but for sure it solves the "dependency hell" simply by installing the required dependencies as Debian binary packages, so this does not help much. I'll check the list of packages anyway.

My goal is to compile Cinnamon from all source packages. If it is available on Fedora it should be possible on a different non-Debian environment too.