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I've come across similar, already answered questions on this website; however none of them deals with starting from the scratch - the Ubuntu core.

The normal release of 12.04 was not responding well on my old PC. Thus, I decided to install "Non-PAE Ubuntu core using" mini.iso.

Now, I am having the Ubuntu core installed which swiftly boots into the terminal CLI. However I want to install a GUI onto this.

I don't want to do apt-get install ubuntu-desktop since that comes with Unity, which I hate like anything.

There are ways to install Mate and Cinnamon available here, however they are valid only if some other GUI is already present. But, I want to install them when no GUI is initially present - right from the core.

In a nutshell: I am looking how to install "Cinnamon" right from the scratch (Ubuntu Core CLI), so that the system directly boots into cinnamon login screen.

On my other system I would also like to do the same but use Mate instead of Cinnamon.

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In addition to cinnamon and X, you should install a display manager like LightDM or SLiM. I found this necessary when I tried to install cinnamon 1.6 along with the mini.iso of Ubuntu.

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I am looking how to install "Cinnamon" right from the scratch

One answer at a time :)

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties -y
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-stable -y
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cinnamon
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