What is the best way to install Gnome 3.16 on Ubuntu 14.04

Question

I want to replace unity with Gnome 3.16, but completely confused. Can I install Gnome 3.16 on Ubuntu 14.04 (I can't upgrade to 14.10)? Someones says it's impossible but there is some article about that.

What is the best way to do that? Is it a good idea to install gnome 3.16 on Ubuntu 14.04? If not, what about Gnome shell 3.10.4-0ubuntu5.2 ?

Solution 1

The latest Gnome 3 you can get on 14.04 is 3.14. In order to do that, you should add staging and testing ppa:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ricotz/testing
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gnome

Solution 2

You're better off installing the official Gnome flavor, Ubuntu-Gnome. otherwise you will run into issues with the environment because Unity is still underneath it

15.04 will allow you to install 3.16 using the staging ppa already mentioned on this page, 15.10 will come with it pre-installed

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