How to install Gnome 3 on Ubuntu 11.04 and still have a stable system?

[Liam Proven]

On 15 May 2011 14:45, Amedee Van Gasse <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be> wrote:
> For me, Linux is all about choice.
> Suppose I wanted to install Gnome 3 on Ubuntu 11.04, how would I do that? I
> have done my homework and used Google, but everything I found involves
> adding ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3 to the repository, and included a warning that
> it will break Unity and that there was no downgrade path. But most of these
> things were at least 2 months old, so before 11.04 was released.
> I really want to have my cookie AND eat it, iow when I log in I want to
> choose between Gnome 3 today, Unity tomorrow, KDE the day after and Fluxbox
> the day after that.
>
> Anyone here who has successfully installed Gnome 3 on 11.04 and still has
> Unity?

You can't. Not for now. Unity currently is built on GNOME 2. Install
GNOME 3, it irretrievably breaks Unity.

11.10 might fix this. 12.04 probably will, because there is a
statement that Unity will be moved onto the newer GNOME libraries
soon. But not the current version.

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