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

[Amedee Van Gasse]

On 05/15/11 17:19, Liam Proven wrote:
> 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.
>
OK thank you. That explains a few things. So its either Gnome 2 + Unity 
or Gnome 3 + Gnome Shell at this moment, and I'll have to watch the 
alphas and betas of 11.10 very closely to see if I can get a choice 
between Gnome 3 + Unity and Gnome 3 + Gnome Shell.

*goes off to fill yet another partition with an ubuntu installation*