Is this available somewhere. I want an image with nothing of unity in it only gnome 3. Something like the new Fedora. The problem is that when I tried gnome 3 in my current Ubuntu install the installation wasn't perfect. I just want to test a completely vanilla Ubuntu with gnome 3.
It is a pity for users like me that there was no image provided on the official website.
Will an image be provided? I don't dislike Unity but I was looking forward to try Gnome 3 on Ubuntu.
There is currently no official image with GNOME 3/11.04 available, however GNOME3 is included in 11.10 and later.
Have you given the following a try:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install gnome-shell
After issuing the above list commands in a terminal, restart the computer. If you decide this is not doing what you want, you can remove everything installed here with the following command:
sudo ppa-purge ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
Special Notes:
This is for Ubuntu 11.04
Ensure that you haven’t opened Ubuntu Software Center or Synaptic Package Manager while installing package from the command line.
Installing Gnome 3.0 on Ubuntu 11.04 using this PPA, will break Unity and your system might become unusable.
When you first log on to your user account, after you click your name, there should be a little menu at the bottom that says something like "desktop:unity" you should be able to click in this box and change the default desktop to the Ubuntu classic or something, which may allow for an easier transition to Gnome 3.0 using @Kory Wnuk's method as posted.
