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Downgrading from GNOME 3 to GNOME 2
Posted by on June 23, 2011
NOTICE: The old version of this post has been deleted because of system risks.
As GNOME 3 was released a few months ago, many people were curious to try it out. Unfortunately, many of them had problems, some not even able to log in. I was one of them.
I decided to make a shell script to downgrade GNOME 3 to GNOME 2, based on ppa-purge.
- Open up a Terminal window (accessible from the GNOME 3 applications menu)
- Type in it:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:lkjoel/dggnome3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install dggnome3
sudo downgradegnome3.sh - Restart your computer
If you have any problems with this method, feel free to comment below.
If this worked, please link to this blog post!
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Just a couple notes. Aptitude is not installed by default in Ubuntu any more. And gnome-core is Debian’s GNOME metapackage but isn’t installed by most Ubuntu users.
It might be worth taking a fresh Ubuntu 11.04 install, adding the GNOME 3 PPA stuff and seeing what needs to be done to restore it back to vanilla 11.04.
Nevermind. gnome-core looks like a good way to ensure you have the basic parts of GNOME installed; I just hadn’t ever noticed that package before. I was thinking of gnome-desktop-environment which pulls in a lot of other stuff.
Aptitude is a dependancy of ppa-purge, so no need to worry about that.
gnome-core just installs the core dependancies of GNOME.
Couldnt have put it any better myself.
Does this work to allow one to have the ability to customize the desktop the way I had it before Natty or Oneiric were released?…
Does this work to allow one to have the ability to customize the desktop the way I had it before Natty or Oneiric were released?…
You cannot downgrade Oneiric GNOME 3 with the script. Only Natty.
Yes, it just simply removes the conflicting PPAs, so it just re-becomes GNOME 2.
So I’m correct in my assumption that Mark Shuttleworth & Canonical are trying to cram Ubiquity down the the throats of the users irregardless of whether or not they have a 1920 X 1200 LCD monitor on their desktop instead of a small tablet or netbook???… I didn’t even like the Netbook Remix the 1 time I tried it on my netbook. If I wanted a MacOS knock off then I would have bought a Mac. I used to sing the praises of Ubuntu to anyone that would listen, I guess I can’t do that in good conscience any longer. Time to test drive KDE, Fluxbox, LXDE & XFCE to see which 1 will be the easiest to replicate the GNOME desktop experience to which I had become accustomed over the previous 4 1/2 years. Maybe it it will be easier to just ditch Ubuntu & try Linux Mint?…
Check out this (GNOME 2 fork): http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11333073