Cinnamon instructions are stale

I built a new openSUSE Xfce system. As soon as it was built, I went to this URL (https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Cinnamon), copied the two lines of code for Leap 15 into a file, and executed it, but it failed:


meme@linux-i7zy:~> ls -al
total 156
drwxr-xr-x 17 meme users  4096 May 16 12:31 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root   4096 May 16 12:24 ..
-rw-------  1 meme users     0 May 16 12:24 .bash_history
-rw-r--r--  1 meme users  1177 May 16 12:24 .bashrc
drwxr-xr-x  2 meme users  4096 May 16 12:24 bin
drwxr-xr-x  7 meme users  4096 May 16 12:29 .cache
-rw-r--r--  1 meme users   168 May 16 12:31 cinn
drwx------ 12 meme users  4096 May 16 12:31 .config
drwxr-xr-x  2 meme users  4096 May 16 12:26 Desktop
-rw-r--r--  1 meme users    43 May 16 12:26 .dmrc
drwxr-xr-x  2 meme users  4096 May 16 12:26 Documents
drwxr-xr-x  2 meme users  4096 May 16 12:26 Downloads
-rw-r--r--  1 meme users  1637 May 16 12:24 .emacs
-rw-------  1 meme users    16 May 16 12:26 .esd_auth
drwxr-xr-x  2 meme users  4096 May 16 12:24 .fonts
-rw-r--r--  1 meme users 18517 May 16 12:24 .gnu-emacs
-rw-r--r--  1 meme users    73 May 16 12:24 .i18n
-rw-------  1 meme users   334 May 16 12:29 .ICEauthority
-rw-r--r--  1 meme users   861 May 16 12:24 .inputrc
drwx------  3 meme users  4096 May 16 12:26 .local
drwx------  5 meme users  4096 May 16 12:29 .mozilla
drwxr-xr-x  2 meme users  4096 May 16 12:26 Music
-rw-r--r--  1 meme users  6043 May 16 12:24 .muttrc
drwxr-xr-x  2 meme users  4096 May 16 12:26 Pictures
-rw-r--r--  1 meme users  1028 May 16 12:24 .profile
drwxr-xr-x  2 meme users  4096 May 16 12:26 Public
drwxr-xr-x  2 meme users  4096 May 16 12:26 Templates
drwxr-xr-x  3 meme users  4096 May 16 12:30 .thumbnails
-rw-r--r--  1 meme users   311 May 16 12:24 .urlview
drwxr-xr-x  2 meme users  4096 May 16 12:26 Videos
-rw-------  1 meme users    55 May 16 12:28 .Xauthority
-rw-r--r--  1 meme users  1951 May 16 12:24 .xim.template
-rwxr-xr-x  1 meme users  1112 May 16 12:24 .xinitrc.template
-rw-------  1 meme users  1417 May 16 12:29 .xsession-errors
-rw-------  1 meme users  2032 May 16 12:27 .xsession-errors.old
meme@linux-i7zy:~> chmod 777 cinn
meme@linux-i7zy:~> sudo ./cinn

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[sudo] password for root: 
Unknown option 'q'
Repository 'openSUSE-Leap-15.0-1' is up to date.                                
Repository 'openSUSE-Leap-15.0-Non-Oss' is up to date.                          
Repository 'openSUSE-Leap-15.0-Update' is up to date.                           
Repository 'openSUSE-Leap-15.0-Update-Non-Oss' is up to date.                   
All repositories have been refreshed.
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
'cinnamon' not found in package names. Trying capabilities.
No provider of 'cinnamon' found.
Resolving package dependencies...

Nothing to do.
meme@linux-i7zy:~> cat cinn
zypper ar -qry http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/Cinnamon:/Current/openSUSE_Leap_15.0/X11:Cinnamon:Current.repo
zypper ref && zypper in -t pattern cinnamon
meme@linux-i7zy:~> 

Then I used the One-click Install link for Leap 15. It appeared to install properly, but at the very end it said that two applications, Thunderbird and another one, could not be installed.

I rebooted and looked at the selector (sorry, I don’t know the proper name) for choosing different desktops, only to find two different ones for Cinnamon, along with Xfce and two minimalist desktops.

Yes, that Portal page seems to have incorrect information unless something has changed in the past couple weeks that I’m not aware of (very unlikely).

Cinnamon cannot be installed by a pattern (does not exist, and hasn’t for maybe 5+ years now).
Cinnamon can be found as a regular RPM package (not pattern) in YaST(search or RPM groups > Other Desktops) or zypper and can be installed that way.
Part of the problem seems to be that the Cinnamon team created and maintains their own installation methods different than what is normally done in openSUSE and may not spend additional time with “support” like the Portal page.

If you feel up to correcting the Portal page, you can login and edit.
If anyone objects to your edits, they can roll back or make their own edits.

Or,
Write up something in the “Discussion” section of the Portal page.

Or,
Submit your finding and recommendation to https://bugzilla.opensuse.org.

TSU

Thanks for the reply. Your explanation was useful information. I filed a bug report (Bug 1135968 - Cinnamon instructions are stale).