Install Linux Mint Cinnamon Themes on Debian

As a long time Windows user it probably is no surprise that I enjoy using the Cinnamon Desktop Environment. Although I have used and enjoyed using Linux Mint one goal I had when I started replacing Windows throughout my house was to be the same distribution on differnt machines. So I settled on installing Debian everywhere and customizing it to each systems individual needs.

I wanted to run Cinnamon on my Thinkpad Laptop and Debian can install it out of the box. The only problem is the defaykt theme leaves a lot to be deisred. Luckily the theme from Linux Mint can installed using a few commands from the terminal.

cd ~/Downloads # Could also be /tmp

git clone --depth=1 --branch 2.1.8 git@github.com:linuxmint/mint-themes.git
cd mint-themes
sudo apt install -y pysassc # Needed by generate.py
./generate.py
sudo cp -r ./usr/share/themes/* /usr/share/themes
cd ..
rm -rf mint-themes

git clone --depth=1 --branch 1.7.1 git@github.com:linuxmint/mint-x-icons.git
cd mint-x-icons
sudo cp -r ./usr/share/icons/* /usr/share/icons
cd ..
rm -rf mint-x-icosn

git clone --depth=1 --branch 1.7.7 git@github.com:linuxmint/mint-y-icons.git
cd mint-y-icons
sudo cp -r ./usr/share/icons/* /usr/share/icons
cd ..
rm -rf mint-y-icons

git clone --depth=1 git@github.com:linuxmint/mint-cursor-themes.git
cd mint-cursor-theme
sudo cp -r ./usr/share/icons/* /usr/share/icons
cd ..
rm -rf mint-cursor-themes

After running these commands the Linux Mint will be available for selection in the Themes application. The current versions of the individual repositories can be checked on GitHub.