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I need to remove GNOME 3, so I can re-install it, for I experienced a huge power surge that disrupted my session in GNOME 3, and currently, the GNOME 3 interface is acting strangely.

Jorge Castro
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Roger
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sudo apt-get install --reinstall gnome-shell will do the work for you.

Bruno Pereira
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1 and 2 provide a simple step by step guide to install Gnome on Ubuntu. However, for the sake of completeness, first of all, remove the current Gnome by apt purge gnome-shell. And then reinstall the following packages, apt install gnome-shell ubuntu-gnome-desktop.

Finally, one more thing is to choose the default graphical interface, for instance, when you are hosting LXDE and Gnome-3 simultaneously on your PC, it will ask for gdm3 V lightdm.

Ishmael MIRZAEE
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Simply enter the following in a terminal to remove Gnome 3:

sudo apt-get remove gnome-shell

...and the following to install it again:

sudo apt-get install gnome-shell

However, you may want to try running dpkg-reconfigure before attempting a re-install just in case that fixes the issues you are experiencing:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure gnome-shell
Nathan Osman
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