A few days ago it came Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus in all its 'flavors', and this includes Ubuntu GNOME. But of course, this variant of the Canonical distro made its appearance based on GNOME 3.18, GNOME Shell 3.18 and the GTK 3.18 libraries -among other various components that have that version number- and the only exceptions are those of GNOME Software and GNOME Calendar, which are from GNOME 3.20.
But there is good news, and it is that you can upgrade Ubuntu GNOME to GNOME 3.20, for which you must use the GNOME Staging PPA. This repository usually always has the newest versions of the entire GNOME software, and it is on which we are going to base ourselves to carry out this update that will allow us to start enjoying the news and benefits that this version of the desktop brought us right now.
Before starting, it would be convenient to activate the Adwaita theme, which is the one that GNOME brings by default, to avoid any incompatibility. And when we have finished we can start to try the different themes and see which one we like the most.
We add the GNOME 3 Staging repository as follows:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging
Then, as always, you have to update:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt dist-upgrade
After that change we will have GNOME 3.20 installed in our system, but it would be convenient to restart the computer so that it can be started in a convenient way and loading all the necessary libraries in an orderly manner.
It is a safe procedure, and it is also based on an official repository so we can use it without inconvenience. But it can always happen that the end result is not completely to our liking, or that there is some performance issue that does not convince us. If that's the case, we can revert very simply these steps to go back to GNOME 3.18 if we wish:
sudo apt install ppa-purge sudo ppa-purge ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging
Hello:
I used ubuntu gnome before and from what I have read in the forums this time I think it is not advisable to use ppa for applications that are already in the ubuntu repositories, in my opinion the flavors of ubuntu have the following objectives:
1º- Be a simple linux.
2º- Be quite up-to-date but not up to date in exchange for a lot of stability.
Therefore I think that if you want to be more updated with the desktop better than ubuntu gnome you could consider using a rolling release for example manjaro gnome that will soon arrive gnome 3.20.1 to the stable branch, it is already in testing
Greetings.
Perfect Served Me A Lot! Thanks! : D
Does anyone know how to do it in Debian 8? : 0
I must accept that I did the upgrade with some fear, I expected the system to throw shots everywhere, but no ... in fact I notice more fluidity in my ubuntu gnome 16.04.1 with version 3.20 .. that same ppa will always leave me the most recent ?
Well, I can't do it, I get the classic Gnome desktop, do I have to configure something else? I have Ubuntu 16.04 updated, I close session and change desktop (I tried with the two Gnomes that come out) and the classic one comes out :(