HOW!? Just HOW THE FUUUCK??!

Did anybody ever try to put a cinnamon desktop onto a ubuntu server version?? 'Cause this is simply fucked up!

Just add the ppa they said. Just run
$ apt-get install cinnamon
they said!

APT-GET YOUR FUCKING HEADS OUT OF YOUR ASSES!

ARRRGGGH. *table-flip*

Why would you ever install a desktop environment onto a server?

That sounds like a clone of Windows Server :D

As the other guys said, terminal & SSH should suffice...
Nevertheless, have you made sure the correct windowmanager, X11 and dependencies are installed and configured?

@DLMousey I think he means he installed the server edition of Ubuntu on his PC so that he could install exactly the packages he wants.

@DLMousey so that he could install exactly the packages he wants.

@DLMousey @Gatgeagent @DuckyMcDuckFace lol. Com'on guys. The desktop is for our users of course xD

We automatically provision and deploy configs on bare-metal machines. I tried to deploy our configured ubuntu version with additional desktop configs, but turned out harder as I thought. I actually spent about 6 hours to get a fucking ugly piece of shit. :/

@PonySlaystation I'm sure I miss something. I installed mdm and cinnamon, but the locale is fucked up and I bet some dependencies may be missing. The desktop starts but has some ugly quirks.

To give you an update, we actually succeeded with this and have deployed all clients and it works pretty smooth 😎

Problem was a dependency fuckup that caused ubuntu images to install that should not have been installed.

Puppet configs for deployment are accessable form our Gitlab if someone is interested

https://gitlab.hs-fulda.org/Puppet/...

There is also a blog post, but rather generic https://edv.hs-fulda.org/the-brand-...

A detailed one will follow :)

Why Cinnamon?
I hate Cinnamon. It's awful!

@Root I don't like it either, but my colleagues do. So requirement over preference.