Installing Unity or Gnome 3 in Debian

Question

I am using Debian 6 .I would like to install any of Unity or Gnome 3 desktop Environments .

Solution 1

You will need to install aptitude and tasksel before install gnome

Aptitude is an Ncurses based FrontEnd to Apt, the debian package manager.

Tasksel is a tool that installs multiple related packages as a co-ordinated “task” onto your system.

# apt-get install aptitude tasksel

Install gnome on debian

# tasksel install gnome-desktop --new-install

Solution 2

This is not likely to ever be readily available.

However, if you're serious about wanting Gnome 3 you may as well make the jump to run Wheezy and install it from experimental.

See Raphael Hertzog's article about Gnome 3 on Debian (with instructions).

Comments

[Admin]

I hate to say this.. but wouldn't it be easier then to just install Ubuntu?

[rɑːdʒɑ]

@hesse thanks for the response but i already have Ubuntu in my desktop(primary) . A dual boot with Debian and Ubuntu .