UbuntuGNOME 14.04

[Gilles Gravier]

Gary,

Just type : sudo apt-get install ubuntu-gnome-desktop
Then set your login manager as gdm : sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm
Then from login screen make sure you select GNOME as your session

Then again, I wrote most of this in my original post... :)

Gilles


On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Gary Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Gilles Gravier <ggravier at fsfe.org> wrote:
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>> So a strange thing happened to me...
>>
>> During the beta period, I went to what I thought would get me the latest
>> beta of Ubuntu... But where I went was :
>> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-gnome/releases/trusty/ (which is for
>> Ubuntu GNOME not for normal Ubuntu). Since I didn't realize it was
>> different, I downloaded the beta.
>>
>> And I loved the look. I figured... hey, they're going for touch screens
>> and all kinds of new things, so the look is changing. I had noticed "Ubuntu
>> GNOME" written on the login screen... but that's about it. :) I figured it
>> was just the new 14.04 look.
>>
>> Then today I updated an Ubuntu 13.10 machine to 14.04 and found it had
>> the old Ubuntu look in 14.04. So I started trying things out to see why I
>> didn't get the new look. Tried all I could. Spent a few hours this
>> afternoon on it... :)
>>
>> Then I read... and found out that "Ubuntu GNOME" is a separate (yet
>> official) flavour of Ubuntu : http://ubuntugnome.org/ and that you can
>> download it from cdimage and their site.
>>
>> If you haven't tried it, it's definitely worth a look! And if you do, you
>> can also update a standard ubuntu to Ubuntu GNOME by installing
>> "ubuntu-gnome-desktop" metapackage, and selecting "gdm" instead of
>> "lightdm"... and then from the new login screen, selecting "GNOME" as your
>> session.
>>
>> Frankly, I can't go back to the "old" Ubuntu look. :)
>>
>> (Of course it's all a question of taste!)
>>
>> Gilles
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>> --
>> Gilles Gravier - ggravier at fsfe.org
>>
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> So if I want to run the gnome interface in Ubuntu 14, is this the
> procedure?  I do not want to install standard applications etc just the
> desktop environment
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>    1. *sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3*
>    2. Update and install with this command: s*udo apt-get u**pdate &&
>    sudo apt-get install gnome-shell ubuntu-gnome-desktop*
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>
> From
> http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/how-to-install-gnome-38-on-ubuntu/
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> Thanks
>
>
> garyk
>
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