Build cinnamon 2.0 and dependencies. inspired by http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2013/10/how-to-build-and-install-the-latest-cinnamon-from-git/

build-cinnamon.sh

#!/bin/bash

function echoError(){
	red='\e[0;31m';	NC='\e[0m' # No Color
	[ $# -gt 0 ] && echo -e "${red}$1${NC}" >&2
}

function echoInfo(){
	COLOR='\e[0;32m';	NC='\e[0m' # No Color
	[ $# -gt 0 ] && echo -e "${COLOR}$1${NC}" >&2
}

function errorExit(){
	[ $# -gt 0 ] && echoError "$1"
	[ $# -gt 1 ] && [[ "$2" =~ ^[0-9]*$ ]] && exit $2
	exit
}

function shure(){
	if [ $# -gt 1 ] && [[ "$2" =~ ^[yY]*$ ]] ; then
		arg="[Y/n]"
		reg=$(locale noexpr)
		default=(0 1)
	else
		arg="[y/N]" 
		reg=$(locale yesexpr)
		default=(1 0)
	fi
	read -p "$1 ${arg}? : " answer
	[[ "$answer" =~ $reg ]] && return ${default[1]} || return ${default[0]}
}

function getDepends(){
	LANG= apt-get -s install "$1" | sed -n -e '/The following NEW packages will be installed/,/^[^ ]/p' | sed -e '1d;$d' | tee "$2"
	return ${PIPESTATUS[0]}
}


function getBuildDepends(){
	LANG= apt-get -s build-dep "$1" | sed -n -e '/The following NEW packages will be installed/,/^[^ ]/p' | sed -e '1d;$d' | tee "$2"
	return ${PIPESTATUS[0]}
}

function toLowerCase(){
	tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' <<<"$1"
}

depFiles=()
function removeTmpFiles(){
	for tmpFile in "${depFiles[@]}" ; do rm "$tmpFile" ; done
}

echoInfo "please add 'deb-src http://packages.linuxmint.com/ petra main' to your /etc/apt/sources.list"
echoInfo "and run: sudo apt-get update"
read -p "Press Enter to continue" trash

repositories=('cjs' 'cinnamon-desktop' 'cinnamon-translations' 'cinnamon-session' 'cinnamon-settings-daemon' 'cinnamon-control-center' 'muffin' 'Cinnamon' 'nemo' 'cinnamon-screensaver')
requiredPackages=('gnome-pkg-tools')
tmpDependsFile="core-packages.deps"
depFiles+=("$tmpDependsFile")
echoInfo "install required packages"
for package in "${requiredPackages[@]}" ; do
	dpkg -s "$package" > /dev/null 2>&1 && echo "required package '$package' is installed" && continue
	echoInfo "install package '$package'"
	getDepends "$package" "$tmpDependsFile" || errorExit "$?"
	sudo apt-get install -qq "$package" || errorExit "required package '$package' not installed"
done

for repo in "${repositories[@]}" ; do
	package=$(toLowerCase "$repo")
	tmpDependsFile="$repo.deps"
	
	shure "build package $package" y || continue
	
	echoInfo "Build depends on $package"
	getBuildDepends "$package" "$tmpDependsFile" || errorExit "$?"
	depFiles+=("$tmpDependsFile")
	sudo apt-get -qq build-dep "$package"
	echoInfo "Clone Git $repo"
	if [ ! -d "$package/git/.git" ] ; then 
		git clone "https://github.com/linuxmint/${repo}.git" "$package/git" || errorExit "failed clone repository"
	fi
	cd "$package/git"
	git pull
	echoInfo "Build package $package"
	dpkg-buildpackage > "../../$package.log" || errorExit "failed build package '$package'"
	cd ..
	echoInfo "install all packages from $package"
	sudo dpkg -i *.deb
	sudo apt-get install -f
	cd .. 
done
#shure "delete tmp files" y && removeTmpFiles
for (( idx=${#depFiles[@]}-1 ; idx>=0 ; idx-- )) ; do
    file="${depFiles[idx]}"
    package="${file%%.*}"
    shure "remove build depends for package '$package'" y && cat "$file" | xargs sudo dpkg -r
done