In this tutorial, I will teach you how to install the GNOME 3 desktop environment on the Ubuntu 11.04 operating system.GNOME 3 comes after five years of hard work.It brings totally redesigned user interface, a lot of hot new features, improved applications, new translations and updated documentation.
What is Gnome 3 ?
GNOME 3 is the next evolution of the GNOME desktop environment, and it has been released on April 6th, 2011, on mirrors worldwide. GNOME 3 is a light desktop environment used in many popular Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu, Mandriva, PCLinuxOS, etc.
Previously I have written a tutorial on How to Install KDE SC 4.5 in Ubuntu 10.04 “Lucid Lynx”
Key Features of “Gnome 3”
- Extremely elegant and easy-to-use desktop
- Side-by-side window tiling, in order to handle multiple windows easy and simple
- A revamped file manager
- You can easily organize windows with totally revamped workspaces
- Smoother and faster desktop experience.
- A pleasant experience for every user.
Note:
The download file size is large. So, it may take long time ti install.
Step-by-step Tutorial to Install Gnome 3
Step1:
Press ALT+F2 key on your keyboard, check the “Run in terminal” option and paste the following command in the “Run Application” dialog,
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
A terminal window will open enter your password when asked.
The terminal window will appear for a few seconds, and it will automatically close.
Step2:
Press ALT+F2 key combination again, check the “Run in terminal” option and paste the following command in the “Run Application” dialog,
gksu apt-get update
As previous step enter your password when asked. A terminal window will appear for a few seconds, and it will automatically close.
Step3:
Press the ALT+F2 key combination again, check the “Run in terminal” option and paste the following command in the “Run Application” dialog,
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
A terminal window will appear. Enter your password and hit Enter. When you will be asked if you want to upgrade your packages, type Y and hit Enter. The terminal window will automatically close when the installation is over.
Step4:
That’s it 🙂 GNOME 3 is installed on your Ubuntu machine. Just reboot your system and choose Ubuntu GNOME Shell Desktop at the login screen.
Enjoy your new GNOME 3 desktop environment 😉 The upcoming Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) Linux distribution comes with GNOME 3 desktop environment.
Ubuntu lovers checkout, 🙂
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is it working for ubuntu 10.1
I already followed your steps, but it is not work for me.
For Ubuntu 10.10, there’s only Gnome 3 stack for testing and builds on launchpad.net and it’s NOT RECOMMENDED to update.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:Ubuntu-desktop/gnome3-builds
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gnome-shell
So, Update your Ubuntu 10.01 to Ubuntu 10.04 then try these steps. 🙂
I tried the above 3 times but no success. Saw message about all index files did not load, not found so ignored or older files used. On re-booting, the Gnome 3 option was not there.
Thanks,
What Ubuntu version you are using?
Ubuntu 10.04
When I execute sudo apt-get update I have the error
W: Impossibile recuperare http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome3-team/gnome3/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
It seems they don’t have a lucid repository… How did it work for you? Maybe you are using maverick, type cat /etc/lsb-release in a terminal, what do you get?
The upgrade is only available on maverick and natty
Check this:
http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome3-team/gnome3/ubuntu/dists/
Upgrade manager will fail to load:
http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome3-team/gnome3/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
Yeah you are right am using Natty realise only.I changed the post title to 11.04.
I have no idea why you get these errors. I followed the same procedure I worked fine 🙂
If you don’t like Unity there are a plethora of different desktop environments you can use instead.
I recommend KDE4 instead of Gnome Shell though.