cinnamon software package provides Innovative and comfortable desktop, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install cinnamon
cinnamon is installed in your system.
Make ensure the cinnamon package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep cinnamon *
You will get with cinnamon package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | X Window System software |
| Package | cinnamon |
| Version | 2.8.6-1ubuntu1 |
| Description | Innovative and comfortable desktop |
| Sub Section | X91 |