For those of you that also feel that Ubuntu and Unity are basically cancer to Linux (or worse then cancer), I finally found an easy way to get Cinnamon running on the Jetson board.
Currently I think this is the only way without compiling it yourself. (which would require compiling many dependencies I believe on ARM)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sagiben/cinnamon-arm
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install cinnamon
Then logout and select it from the menu.
Seems to work ok so far.
Does the unity still work properly when cinnamon is installed coz KDE completely meesed it up?
I have gnome 3 (using the gnone fallback install thing in ubuntu), unity, and cinnamon installed and haven’t seen any issues switching between them. No need to purge any of them or anything. (except it would save on flash storage space)
However I have seen some weird theme issues such as parts of windows being black when maybe they shouldn’t be but that can be fixed in the configuration somewhere or by installing new themes.
I just tried above routine to install Cinnamon on Jetson TX2 and the procedure/repository failed:
sb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
Release: 18.04
Codename: bionic
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sagiben/cinnamon-arm
Get:1 file:/var/cuda-repo-10-0-local-10.0.166 InRelease
Ign:1 file:/var/cuda-repo-10-0-local-10.0.166 InRelease
Get:2 file:/var/visionworks-repo InRelease
Ign:2 file:/var/visionworks-repo InRelease
Get:3 file:/var/visionworks-sfm-repo InRelease
Ign:3 file:/var/visionworks-sfm-repo InRelease
Get:4 file:/var/visionworks-tracking-repo InRelease
Ign:4 file:/var/visionworks-tracking-repo InRelease
Get:5 file:/var/cuda-repo-10-0-local-10.0.166 Release [574 B]
Get:5 file:/var/cuda-repo-10-0-local-10.0.166 Release [574 B]
Get:6 file:/var/visionworks-repo Release [1,999 B]
Get:6 file:/var/visionworks-repo Release [1,999 B]
Get:7 file:/var/visionworks-sfm-repo Release [2,003 B]
Get:7 file:/var/visionworks-sfm-repo Release [2,003 B]
Get:8 file:/var/visionworks-tracking-repo Release [2,008 B]
Get:8 file:/var/visionworks-tracking-repo Release [2,008 B]
Ign:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/sagiben/cinnamon-arm/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:11 Index of /ubuntu-ports bionic InRelease
Hit:13 Index of /ubuntu-ports bionic-updates InRelease
Err:15 http://ppa.launchpad.net/sagiben/cinnamon-arm/ubuntu bionic Release
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.95.83 80]
Hit:16 Index of /ubuntu-ports bionic-backports InRelease
Hit:18 Index of /ubuntu-ports bionic-security InRelease
Reading package lists… Done
E: The repository ‘http://ppa.launchpad.net/sagiben/cinnamon-arm/ubuntu bionic Release’ does not have a Release file.