I broke unity with gnome3 ppa, now what?

[Alan Pope]

On 29 April 2011 01:54, FireSam <ubuntu at e17th.com> wrote:
> Hi fellow ubuntu'ers,
> I wanted to try using gnome3 after I upgraded to 11.04. unfortunately I did
> not do enough research first.
> (http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/04/gnome-3-released-to-be-available-for-ubuntu-11-04-via-ppa/)
> Also I removed gnome3 trying to get unity back. Now I have nothing. how do I
> undo that change now? that install does not have a network connection but i
> can use an alternate install on an external drive (using it now). I also
> have the alternate install cd of 11.04 natty narwhatever.

You could perhaps use ppa-purge to get rid of the gnome3 ppa and
packages and then issue:-

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop^

Which may or may not reset you back to standard.

Fingers crossed :)

Cheers,
Al.