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First problem is that the cinnamon announcement points only to the window manager repository and none of the announcement, the docs in the repo, or the cinnamon website gives any clue of the build process or that cinnamon is split between a number of repositories, or of the dependencies between said repositories. Fortunately all components have a debian directory with debian control and build files so it was not too difficult to work out build dependencies and get the required components needed for building installed (just a pain in the butt that I needed to work through this).
This comment mentions a repository where you can obtain it from: http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2465#comment-100667 Repository: ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-stable [...] Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174