How to install Gnome 3 and how to get the 11.10 login screen on Lucid lynx

[Jonathan Rogers]

Alexander Vinbæk Strand wrote:
> How do I get the new 11.10 logon screen at 10.04 LTS without
> upgrading? I don't want upgrade before Ubuntu fixes that what is wrong
> with all new version from Maverick and newer.
> I don't want my pc hanging everytime I login computer, that's why I'm
> running Lucid version.
> I have a CD with Ubuntu 10.10 that is useless because of that thing.
> 10.04.3 Is working great :-)

I think you're going to have to be a bit more specific about the nature
of your problem and what you're trying to accomplish. What do you mean
by "logon screen"? Are you referring to just the screen where you type
in your user name and password, or the whole desktop environment? It
sounds like there is an incompatibility between something in 11.10 and
your machine, so I would try to determine what the problem is and
whether there's a way to work around it or fix it. Search for bug
reports that sound similar to what you experience and/or file your own.

>
> And how to get upgrade only Gnome to Gnome 3 on my computer without
> deleting the whole system as it done last time I tried?
> I know you can do it on Oneiric version, Natty version and Maverick
> version so I think it can be done also on Lucid Version if I upgrade
> some of the repositories but which of them?
> Please help me, last time I had to reinstall the whole system and lost
> all of my files.
> I don't want that once more, I just want to upgrade the gnome pack
> nothing more.
> Someone knows how to do it?

AFAIK, the official Ubuntu repositories up to and including release
11.04 (Natty) contain only GNOME 2 and not GNOME 3. From release 11.10
onward, they contain only GNOME 3 and not GNOME 2. If you installed
GNOME 3 previously, I don't think you were using Natty or Maverick
repositories.

It certainly is possible to upgrade from one release to the next without
starting from scratch; I've done it many times using update-manager or
update-manager-core. Most of the time, it's smooth and doesn't take
long. However, if there seem to be problems running Oneiric on your
machine, you should figure out how to avoid them before upgrading. You
can only upgrade from one release to the next, so you would need to
upgrade from 10.04 to 10.10, then to 11.04 before finally upgrading to
11.10.

-- 
Jonathan Ross Rogers