Cinnamon desktop no package available

[mesologgitis]

Greetings to CentOS community. During this month i was able to install Cinnamon desktop to two different laptops running on CentOS 7.5.1804 without problems whatsoever. Yesterday i installed CentOS 7.5.1804 to a third laptop, but i'm unable to install Cinnamon this time. Is Cinnamon not available any more or i'm missing something?

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 [root@localhost centos]# yum install cinnamon
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: ftp.otenet.gr
 * elrepo: ftp.cc.uoc.gr
 * epel: mirror.serverbeheren.nl
 * extras: ftp.otenet.gr
 * nux-dextop: mirror.li.nux.ro
 * updates: ftp.otenet.gr
No package cinnamon available.
Error: Nothing to do
[root@localhost centos]# yum search cinnamon
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: ftp.otenet.gr
 * elrepo: ftp.cc.uoc.gr
 * epel: mirrors.neterra.net
 * extras: ftp.otenet.gr
 * nux-dextop: mirror.li.nux.ro
 * updates: ftp.otenet.gr
============================ N/S matched: cinnamon =============================
cinnamon-applet-blueberry.noarch : Cinnamon applet for blueberry
cinnamon-themes.noarch : Collection of the best themes available for Cinnamon
f22-backgrounds-gnome.noarch : Fedora 22 default wallpaper for Gnome and
                             : Cinnamon

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[lknls]

try this

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yum install epel-release -y
yum groupinstall "Server with GUI" -y
yum install cinnamon -y
systemctl get-default 
systemctl set-default graphical.target

[TrevorH]

Cinnamon was in EPEL but has been removed as the maintainer decided to stop. EPEL removes orphaned packages that have no maintainer.

EPEL have a mailing list and I would suspect there is probably already discussion of this on that.

[mesologgitis]

Thanks for the replies, i was finally able to install it.
For some reason it kept using http://ftp.nluug.nl/ mirror for epel repo, no matter how many times i cleaned yum. While an other pc on the same network used
https://ftp.cc.uoc.gr and it was able to find cinnamon.
So i edited /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo to metalink=https://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/pub/linux/epel/7/$basearch and then it found the cinnamon desktop and all its dependencies.

[TrevorH]

I suspect your Greek EPEL mirror is out of date and still contains the now removed packages.

[mesologgitis]

I had the same thought, since you said that cinnamon is no longer maintained by EPEL.

[mesologgitis]

Is there any alternative for that, or it will become not possible in the near future to install cinnamon in CentOS?

[TrevorH]

The only thing you can do is take a copy of them before they disappear. That or step up and become the new maintainer for EPEL

[mesologgitis]

I see , currently i'm working and attending a MSc so time is a luxury i don't have. But i would like to contribute later.
Thanks for your time

[mmontalvo]

How do you go about becoming a maintainer?