Sunday, May 01, 2011

Gnome 3 in natty

Any way I am not going to use unity. So switch to gnome 3
Installation of gnome 3 in natty is simple in 3 steps
Open your terminal

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

sudo apt-get install gnome-desktop3


As the default ubuntu is not packed with gtk3, you need to install gtk 3 to make it look sexy


sudo apt-get install gtk3-engines
sudo apt-get install gnome-themes


To change themes, you need gnome-tweak-tool


sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool

There is no guarantee that this will work fine.
if u are too afraid then wait till Oneiric Ocelot or switch to fedora 15.

2 comments:

  1. I am unable to install gnome3 in natty. It went fine till the 3rd command
    on trying the 4th command i got this in terminal.

    vishnu@mypc:~$ sudo apt-get install gnome-desktop3
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information... Done
    E: Unable to locate package gnome-desktop3
    vishnu@mypc:~$

    What should i do to resolve this problem.

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  2. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

    sudo apt-get install gnome-shell

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