Upgrade to Cinnamon 1.6 on Linux Mint 13

Tutorial how to Upgrade to Cinnamon 1.6 on Linux Mint 13

The new version of Cinnamon 1.6 is now available. Its not in the final stage but Linux Mint 13 users can upgrade to Cinnamon 1.6 to see the performance of this new desktop manager. This tutorial will show you how to upgrade to Cinnamon 1.6 on Linux Mint 13. Previously, I have posted about how to install Cinnamon on Linux Mint 13. Its not difficult to upgrade to Cinnamon 1.6. You may want to read the new features included on Cinnamon 1.6 before performing upgrade.

First, check the Cinnamon version on your current Linux Mint 13. To check cinnamon version use the following command instead

cinnamon --version

Now, add or enable Romeo repository to your Linux Mint 13. You can do this graphically via Software source or by editing the sources.list file. Go to Menu > Prefe

If you prefer using Terminal, you can add the following line to the file /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ maya main upstream import romeo

To edit the file use this command

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Then, you can use the Update Manager to upgrade to Cinnamon 1.6.0 or simply use install command and it will replace the old Cinnamon with Cinnamon 1.6.0

mint@mint ~ $ sudo apt-get install cinnamon
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
gir1.2-folks-0.6 gir1.2-telepathylogger-0.2 gir1.2-telepathyglib-0.12 gir1.2-gee-1.0
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
gir1.2-gdesktopenums-3.0 libmuffin0 libnemo-extension1a muffin-common nemo nemo-data python-lxml
Suggested packages:
eog python-lxml-dbg
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gir1.2-gdesktopenums-3.0 libnemo-extension1a nemo nemo-data python-lxml
The following packages will be upgraded:
cinnamon libmuffin0 muffin-common
3 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 427 not upgraded.
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After this operation, 17.3 MB of additional disk space will be used.
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