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How to run Gnome 3 on 11.10

Asked by Blair Zajac

I've set up Ubuntu 11.10 in a VirtualBox VM based off the alpha-2 ISO and trying to switch from Unity to Gnome 3. When I select GNOME from the login screen and log in, a popup appears saying 'Failed to load session 'gnome'". I've got many gnome packages installed, such as gnome-session. What is missing? Is this supported yet?

I've posted this question on SuperUser if you want rep points there:

http://superuser.com/questions/314068/how-to-run-gnome-3-on-ubuntu-11-10

Thanks,
Blair

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Tomaž Gorenc (tomzigorenc) said : 		#1

You need to install package gnome-shell. Open Terminal and paste in it: sudo apt-get install gnome-shell. When is all installed click log out and on lightGDM choose GNOME session.

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schaffs (j-schaffran) said : 		#2

I have the same problem, but with loading Ubuntu.
I recently updated - had 11.04, now 11.10
When I attempt to login, I get the message "failed to load session 'ubuntu'" - what do I need to do to resolve this?

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