Gnome shell 11.10

[Randymanme]

Hello,


I'm following instructions at http://blog.flexion.org/2011/12/09/gnome-3-shell-ubuntu-11-10-oneiric/, to replace Unity with Gnome Shell. At some point in the process, folks wanting to accomplish that are directed to use the following command:


sudo apt-purge unity unity-2d unity-2d-launcher unity-asset-pool unity-common unity-greeter unity-lens-applications unity-lens-music libunity-misc4


Well, here's what I get:


randyman@Gnome11:~$ sudo apt-purge unity unity-2d unity-2d-launcher unity-asset-pool unity-common unity-greeter unity-lens-applications unity-lens-music libunity-misc4
[sudo] password for randyman:
sudo: apt-purge: command not found
randyman@Gnome11:~$


Before I make any newbie assumptions, let me just ask, should that be “sudo apt-get purge” for complete removal or is “sudo apt-get remove” is what's intended? Does Unity have dependencies that might be needed by Gnome Shell?


Of course I've looked for an answer, e.g., http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1100838 How to remove with apt-get (questions). But I don't know what's appropriate without knowing what's intended.


As always, any help will be much appreciated.

[cybergalvez]

using purge will remove all the configuration options as well as the packages, remove only removes the packages while leaving any configuration files.

With that said I would not remove unity 2d or 3d I would simply add gnome-shell and use the session manager to select gnome rather than unity, this give you a fall-back should something go wrong, or an additional shell should you or another user ever want to use it

[Randymanme]

Since the tutorial said, "sudo apt-purge . . ." instead of "sudo apt-remove . . .," I assume it to have meant, "sudo apt-get purge . . .." I tried it and gnome shell works just fine, more or less.

[Randymanme]

The recently released, stable, Cinnamon Desktop 1.2 is even better. Not only do you get Cinnamom, but it also drags in Gnome Shell and Gnome Classic as dependencies.

See it at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yPqR-nKsE4

Get it at: http://www.webupd8.org/2012/01/cinnamon-12-released-with-desktop.html