Cinnamon Desktop Environment – cannot install?

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Have not installed from outside the repos. Any way to verify? Log?
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rj@antix17.1:~
$ sudo apt-get purge cinnamon-*
[sudo] password for rj:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Note, selecting ‘cinnamon-session’ for glob ‘cinnamon-*’
Note, selecting ‘cinnamon-capplets-data’ for glob ‘cinnamon-*’
Note, selecting ‘cinnamon-translations’ for glob ‘cinnamon-*’
Note, selecting ‘cinnamon-settings-daemon-dbgsym’ for glob ‘cinnamon-*’
Note, selecting ‘cinnamon-session-common’ for glob ‘cinnamon-*’
Note, selecting ‘cinnamon-control-center’ for glob ‘cinnamon-*’
Note, selecting ‘cinnamon-doc’ for glob ‘cinnamon-*’
Note, selecting ‘cinnamon-screensaver’ for glob ‘cinnamon-*’
Note, selecting ‘cinnamon-screensaver-webkit-plugin’ for glob ‘cinnamon-*’
Note, selecting ‘cinnamon-desktop-environment’ for glob ‘cinnamon-*’
Note, selecting ‘cinnamon-settings-daemon-dev’ for glob ‘cinnamon-*’
Note, selecting ‘cinnamon-settings-daemon’ for glob ‘cinnamon-*’
Note, selecting ‘cinnamon-control-center-data’ for glob ‘cinnamon-*’
Note, selecting ‘cinnamon-screensaver-x-plugin’ for glob ‘cinnamon-*’
Note, selecting ‘cinnamon-core’ for glob ‘cinnamon-*’
Note, selecting ‘cinnamon-l10n’ for glob ‘cinnamon-*’
Note, selecting ‘cinnamon-desktop-data’ for glob ‘cinnamon-*’
Note, selecting ‘cinnamon-common’ for glob ‘cinnamon-*’
Note, selecting ‘cinnamon-session-dbgsym’ for glob ‘cinnamon-*’
Note, selecting ‘cinnamon-control-center-data’ instead of ‘cinnamon-capplets-data’
Package ‘cinnamon-translations’ is not installed, so not removed
Package ‘cinnamon-session’ is not installed, so not removed
Package ‘cinnamon-session-common’ is not installed, so not removed
Package ‘cinnamon-session-dbgsym’ is not installed, so not removed
Package ‘cinnamon-settings-daemon’ is not installed, so not removed
Package ‘cinnamon-settings-daemon-dbgsym’ is not installed, so not removed
Package ‘cinnamon-settings-daemon-dev’ is not installed, so not removed
Package ‘cinnamon-common’ is not installed, so not removed
Package ‘cinnamon-doc’ is not installed, so not removed
Package ‘cinnamon-control-center’ is not installed, so not removed
Package ‘cinnamon-control-center-data’ is not installed, so not removed
Package ‘cinnamon-desktop-data’ is not installed, so not removed
Package ‘cinnamon-core’ is not installed, so not removed
Package ‘cinnamon-desktop-environment’ is not installed, so not removed
Package ‘cinnamon-screensaver’ is not installed, so not removed
Package ‘cinnamon-screensaver-webkit-plugin’ is not installed, so not removed
Package ‘cinnamon-screensaver-x-plugin’ is not installed, so not removed
Package ‘cinnamon-l10n’ is not installed, so not removed
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
desktop-file-utils libffmpegthumbnailer4v5 libjs-jquery libjs-sphinxdoc
libjs-underscore python-concurrent.futures python-livestreamer python-singledispatch
spacefm-common
Use ‘sudo apt autoremove’ to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
rj@antix17.1:~
$ sudo apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
desktop-file-utils libffmpegthumbnailer4v5 libjs-jquery libjs-sphinxdoc
libjs-underscore python-concurrent.futures python-livestreamer python-singledispatch
spacefm-common
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 9 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
After this operation, 5,578 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database … 171475 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing desktop-file-utils (0.23-1) …
Removing libffmpegthumbnailer4v5 (2.1.1-0.1+b3) …
Removing python-livestreamer (1.12.2-1.1) …
Removing python-concurrent.futures (3.0.5-3) …
Removing libjs-sphinxdoc (1.4.9-2) …
Removing libjs-jquery (3.1.1-2) …
Removing libjs-underscore (1.8.3~dfsg-1) …
Removing python-singledispatch (3.4.0.3-2) …
Removing spacefm-common (1.0.6-1) …
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-11+deb9u3) …
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) …
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.8-1) …
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-1) …
Writing Menu: fluxbox
Writing Menu: openbox
Writing Menu: jwm
Writing Menu: icewm
rj@antix17.1:~
$

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apt-get clean
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade

• This reply was modified 5 years ago by anticapitalista.

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rj@antix17.1:~
$ su
Password:
root@antix17:/home/rj# apt-get clean
root@antix17:/home/rj# apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
Ign:1 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Hit:2 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates InRelease
Hit:3 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable Release
Ign:5 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch InRelease
Hit:6 http://repo.antixlinux.com/stretch stretch InRelease
Hit:7 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch Release
Reading package lists… Done
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Calculating upgrade… Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
ds-mouse-antix fonts-opensymbol google-chrome-stable libreoffice-base-core
libreoffice-calc libreoffice-common libreoffice-core libreoffice-draw libreoffice-gtk
libreoffice-gtk2 libreoffice-impress libreoffice-math libreoffice-style-galaxy
libreoffice-systray libreoffice-writer repo-manager smxi-inxi-antix uno-libs3 ure
19 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 129 MB of archives.
After this operation, 175 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable/main amd64 google-chrome-stable amd64 66.0.3359.117-1 [52.2 MB]
Get:2 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates/main amd64 uno-libs3 amd64 5.2.7-1+deb9u4 [858 kB]
Get:3 http://repo.antixlinux.com/stretch stretch/main amd64 ds-mouse-antix all 0.1.8 [14.3 kB]
Get:4 http://repo.antixlinux.com/stretch stretch/main amd64 repo-manager amd64 0.1.7 [59.0 kB]
Get:5 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates/main amd64 ure amd64 5.2.7-1+deb9u4 [1,687 kB]
Get:6 http://repo.antixlinux.com/stretch stretch/main amd64 smxi-inxi-antix all 0.4.7 [251 kB]
Get:7 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates/main amd64 libreoffice-impress amd64 1:5.2.7-1+deb9u4 [924 kB]
Get:8 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates/main amd64 libreoffice-draw amd64 1:5.2.7-1+deb9u4 [2,432 kB]
Get:9 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates/main amd64 libreoffice-gtk2 amd64 1:5.2.7-1+deb9u4 [204 kB]
Get:10 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates/main amd64 libreoffice-writer amd64 1:5.2.7-1+deb9u4 [7,600 kB]
Get:11 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates/main amd64 libreoffice-systray amd64 1:5.2.7-1+deb9u4 [12.8 kB]
Get:12 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates/main amd64 libreoffice-math amd64 1:5.2.7-1+deb9u4 [359 kB]
Get:13 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates/main amd64 libreoffice-style-galaxy all 1:5.2.7-1+deb9u4 [1,844 kB]
Get:14 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates/main amd64 libreoffice-gtk all 1:5.2.7-1+deb9u4 [2,922 B]
Get:15 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates/main amd64 libreoffice-common all 1:5.2.7-1+deb9u4 [23.6 MB]
Get:16 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates/main amd64 libreoffice-base-core amd64 1:5.2.7-1+deb9u4 [708 kB]
Get:17 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates/main amd64 libreoffice-calc amd64 1:5.2.7-1+deb9u4 [6,463 kB]
Get:18 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates/main amd64 libreoffice-core amd64 1:5.2.7-1+deb9u4 [29.3 MB]
Get:19 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates/main amd64 fonts-opensymbol all 2:102.7+LibO5.2.7-1+deb9u4 [260 kB]
Fetched 129 MB in 1min 26s (1,487 kB/s)
(Reading database … 171245 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack …/00-google-chrome-stable_66.0.3359.117-1_amd64.deb …
Unpacking google-chrome-stable (66.0.3359.117-1) over (65.0.3325.181-1) …
Preparing to unpack …/01-uno-libs3_5.2.7-1+deb9u4_amd64.deb …
Unpacking uno-libs3 (5.2.7-1+deb9u4) over (5.2.7-1+deb9u3) …
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Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-11+deb9u3) …
Setting up smxi-inxi-antix (0.4.7) …
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Setting up google-chrome-stable (66.0.3359.117-1) …
Setting up fonts-opensymbol (2:102.7+LibO5.2.7-1+deb9u4) …
Setting up uno-libs3 (5.2.7-1+deb9u4) …
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-1) …
Setting up ure (5.2.7-1+deb9u4) …
Processing triggers for fontconfig (2.11.0-6.7+b1) …
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Setting up repo-manager (0.1.7) …
Setting up libreoffice-style-galaxy (1:5.2.7-1+deb9u4) …
Setting up libreoffice-common (1:5.2.7-1+deb9u4) …
Setting up libreoffice-core (1:5.2.7-1+deb9u4) …
Setting up libreoffice-gtk2 (1:5.2.7-1+deb9u4) …
Setting up libreoffice-systray (1:5.2.7-1+deb9u4) …
Setting up libreoffice-gtk (1:5.2.7-1+deb9u4) …
Setting up libreoffice-draw (1:5.2.7-1+deb9u4) …
Setting up libreoffice-impress (1:5.2.7-1+deb9u4) …
Setting up libreoffice-math (1:5.2.7-1+deb9u4) …
Setting up libreoffice-base-core (1:5.2.7-1+deb9u4) …
Setting up libreoffice-calc (1:5.2.7-1+deb9u4) …
Setting up libreoffice-writer (1:5.2.7-1+deb9u4) …
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-11+deb9u3) …
Writing Menu: fluxbox
Writing Menu: openbox
Writing Menu: jwm
Writing Menu: icewm
root@antix17:/home/rj#

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Can you install cinnamon with apt-get now?

If not, I’m baffled.

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Tried apt-get install cinnamon and failed again. Result below…

I am baffled as well.

What I tried next was to take a snapshot of the existing system and then install on the same partition, a fresh 17.1 final install, update and dist-upgrade with no apps and no updated kernel, only update and dist-upgrade and wireless network.

Next install from AntiX Pkg installer full Cinnamon.

Went flawlessly – poked around the desktop.

Next, same partition, reinstalled same 17.1 final, update and dist-upgrade with no apps and only this time installed 4.15.9 kernal.

Going along fine for quite some time and suddenly stops at the point where it is at and seizes everything and must power off now (waited 1/2 hour+ before doing so):

cinnamon-control-center-data all 3.2.1-3 [2,664kB]
27% ‘[57 cinnamon-control-center-data364 kB/2,664kB14%] [thunderbird 27.3 M….

Couldn’t read the rest – it was off the screen.

Rebooted, tried to install again and it succeeded.

Switched desktops to Cinnamon and there was an orange notification “Problem during Cinnamon startup” -applets desklets or extensions failed to load -check system log and Cinnamon looking glass log for…”

Could not find either log.

Var/log/apt/history.log – no errors or fail here.

It might be one of the apps installed on the original install that I could not install it at all on, that prevented the cinnamon desktop install [broken pkgs, etc] maybe – chrome, gimp, xscreensaver,pinta, florence virtual keyboard, redshift (w/geoclue2),pulseaudio – all obtained from default installers.

Could be the kernel update. Could be something entirely different.

Not so enthused with Cinnamon that I would reload the system at every app install to find out.

Going to give up on this desktop. IceWM and Xfce work quite well for me. Just wanted to try it out and that was enough.

There are also some other apps in IceWM that are not working correctly with either kernel – Wireless setup kept freezing – had to power off – could not open text files with leafpad – issues never had before.

Will reload original snapshot – it runs fine without Cinnamon.

Thanks for checking into this for me. I appreciate your time and suggestions very much.

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rj@antix17.1:~
$ su
Password:
root@antix17:/home/rj# apt-get install cinnamon
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
cinnamon : Depends: nemo (>= 3.0) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
root@antix17:/home/rj#

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