[How to] Install Unity 5.0 in Ubuntu 11.10

By , Published January 14, 2012

Unity 5.0 installed in Ubuntu 11.10

Unity 5.0 hit Ubuntu 12.04 last night, but Ubuntu 11.10 users don’t need to miss out: Unity 5.0 is also available to install in Oneiric.

The packages are housed in the Unity Team Staging PPA. As this is not a ‘Stable releases’ PPA you should expect things to break after upgrading – as such only those who feel confident enough in handling any bugs should upgrade.

Two apps that won’t work under Unity 5.0 on Ubuntu 11.10 are the Marlin file browser and the stable release of Nuvola Player. Nor will many of the third-party Lenses and Scopes we’ve featured over the last month.

On to the good stuff. Unity 5.0 feels every bit as snappy under Ubuntu 11.10 as it does under 12.04. All of the options and features we’ve previously mentioned are available including the menu discovery fading, support for custom Dash colouring, force-quit action, and the Bfb ‘Lenses Quicklist’.

And yes – you can also disable the ‘Apps for Download’ section using Unity 5.0.

Install Unity 5.0 in Ubuntu 11.10

Add the following PPA to your Software Sources per these instructions:

  • ppa:unity-team/staging

After adding, pen the Update Manager, click ‘Check for Updates’, and proceed to install those you’re prompted to do.

This can also be achieved via the Terminal by running: -

  • sudo add-apt-repository ppa:unity-team/staging
  • sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

All done? Restart your computer then begin enjoying Unity 5.0.

Downgrade Unity 5.0

“It’s all gone wrong! Halp!”

Open a terminal and enter the following commands: -

  • sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
  • sudo ppa-purge ppa:unity-team/staging

 

Related posts:

  1. How To Install The Latest Unity in Ubuntu 11.04
  2. Ubuntu Unity 2D gets a PPA for Maverick and Natty testers
  3. Ubuntu 10.04 Unity users with slow Nautilus/apps may wish to install this…
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  • https://launchpad.net/~afccarl1994 Carl Ansell

    Does this break anything?

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ Joey-Elijah Sneddon

      Nuvola (stable) refuses to open for me because of a libunity error. The dev version, however, does work.

      I’ve heard that Marlin file browser won’t work under it either. 

      Other than that i’ve yet to find any other drawbacks, but as I say in the post – it pays to be cautious.

      • http://twitter.com/zzecool zzecool

        There is a temporary fix for this that i dont quite like and it is to make a shortcut of the old libunity  pointing to the new libunity that is installed with Unity 5  . 

        :) 

        Edit : More precise try :

        sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libunity.so.9 /usr/lib/libunity.so.6

        Hope that helps

        • https://launchpad.net/~stachowski-mateusz Mateusz Stachowski

          Symlinking the old libunity to the new one resolves that problem.

          I can run Nuvola unstable (before it complained about libunity.so.6) and Marlin. 

          I don’t know about lenses because I didn’t install any of them, but I suspect that it does.

          • http://www.dennisaltermann.com.br/ Dennis Altermann

            “symlinking”? Can you be more specific (or more simple)? haha :)

            Thanks.

        • http://twitter.com/kodykodiak Kody McCarthy

          Thanks! Your hack worked like a charm. Upgrading broke Empathy for me, and the downgrade commands weren’t working (sent me into package management hell). This fixes the problems I was having that made me consider downgrading in the first place.

          • http://www.dennisaltermann.com.br/ Dennis Altermann

            The Empathy broke too, any ideia how to solve it?

            I made the downgrade and it broke my nautilus now, haha.

        • http://www.dennisaltermann.com.br/ Dennis Altermann

          I got the same problem with Empathy, you think is possible to solve with same fix?

          With Skype: libxss.so.1

      • https://launchpad.net/~afccarl1994 Carl Ansell

        Cheers. I don’t use Nuvola or Marlin, so I’ll give it a go!

    • Anonymous

      Brasero won’t work

      to fix:
      sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libunity.so.9 /usr/lib/libunity.so.6

      • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ActionParsnip ActionParsnip

        Are other burners affected by this or is it just Brasero?

        • http://twitter.com/zzecool zzecool

          Everything that depends on libunity.so.6 is affected .. its common sense ……..

          • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ActionParsnip ActionParsnip

            No it doesn’t. I don’t have ANY packages with the word unity in as I use LXDE. Not everyone uses Unity, so the question is completely valid.

          • http://twitter.com/zzecool zzecool

            You do understand  that we are speaking about the new version of unity  …..

            Do you ?   

      • http://twitter.com/pccampos Pedro Casagrande

        This fixed Nuvola too

      • Anonymous

        This fix marlin too! Thanks.

    • http://jeremy.bicha.net/ Jeremy Bicha

       It’ll break everything that depends on libunity, which means any extra scopes, lens, and any app (there are several that do) that adds extra functionality to their launcher icons. In other words, it will break Ubuntu 11.10.

  • http://twitter.com/dr3mro dr3mro

    wow .. this is what i hoped for ..

  • http://www.facebook.com/smashter Smash Franco

    exelent!

  • Alois Janíček

    2 days ago this ppa broked telepathy-indicator. Is everything OK? You see blue message icon, when you got new message in Empathy?

    • http://www.dennisaltermann.com.br/ Dennis Altermann

      I wasn’t seeing the blue icon with new message before use this PPA. Don’t have sure what make, but noticed that somedays ago when back to Empathy

  • https://profiles.google.com/phonixor phonixor

    any idea about the ram and cpu usage… cause i think the:
    107 MB 2-6% CPU (3GHZ) – compiz
    53 MB  – zeitgeist daemon
    25 MB – ubuntu sync
    8 MB – unity panel
    9MB – weather applet
    10+ MB more “OS” stuff
    i have with 11:10 is way to much, this all together should be max 50 MB and 0 CPU cause i ain’t doing a thing!

    don’t wanna upgrade for the OS! i want to upgrade for programs that really should require better hardware, like games!

    • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ActionParsnip ActionParsnip

      Is that in Oneiric or Precise?

      • https://profiles.google.com/phonixor phonixor

        11:10 Oneiric

        • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ActionParsnip ActionParsnip

          Are you using compiz and unity from the official repos or are you using the 3rd party one to move it to the bottom of the screen?

          • https://profiles.google.com/phonixor phonixor

            default repo

    • Anonymous

      Well, I don’t know about the CPU.. You might be right there.
      But to me the memory usage doesn’t look that bad at all. How much memory has your computer got? I believe that the more memory you stick in your PC the more memory is gonna be used.

    • Anonymous

      cpu will never be zero, sorry … as long as the OS is loaded, things have to be done behind the scenes.

      And around 5% idle is quite good on an average machine.

      As for the memory, I see that you are using under 256MB of ram on idle, and seeing that ubuntu 11.10 says it needs 384MB (recommended at least 512MB), that is more than fair.

      But having a lighter OS footprint never hurt anyone

  • Saurav R Tuladhar

    How do I undo this installation?  All the windows are faded after I installed this.

    • Anonymous

      faded windows? did you mean translucent windows decoration? if so, try to change the panel opacity (in ccsm) to 100%.

      to uninstall:-

      sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
      sudo ppa-purge ppa:unity-team/staging

      • http://www.dennisaltermann.com.br/ Dennis Altermann

        I made that, but broke my nautilus, something with the librarie. Any ideia?

  • Miloš Jakovljević

    With this Unity in Oneiric, extra installed lanses don’t work. :(

  • Fabian Falatyk

    As a fairly new Ubuntu user: Is this somewhat safe to install or some sort of fancy new alpha release? 

    On a related note: How do I undo the installation if it breaks something?

    • Anonymous

      Your asking for someone to quantify something that can’t be quantified. If you are willing to live with reinstalling your system if you can’t find the solution to fix it, and are capable of saving your important data using a livecd. (it’s often a lot quicker to reinstall than try not find a solution anyway) Go for it, if not wait for 12.04.

      • Anonymous

        You’re.

    • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ActionParsnip ActionParsnip

      The alpgha release is not ready and not stable. If you want a stable release (advised as you are a new user) then use 11.10 which is the latest stable release. If you want a half ready OS and want to report bugs to get the release ready for April then use Precise.

    • Anonymous

      Stable for me, but not recommended … Just wait a few months and be amazed by the finished product

    • http://aethralis.myopenid.com/ Aeth

      First, if you are using _any_ ppa’s , then it would be wise to install ppa-purge first. If something goes wrong you can relatively easily get your sources and packages to previous state again.

      However, installing alpha releases on production machine (ie upgrading to precise now), is never recommended. You should have a separeate machine for this or at least a separate partition.

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SOLJHNEYZ62C5WOZQSHPR5RO74 ApocolypseNow

        Bad Mojo!

        I followed the steps outlined above after some of my programs and scopes stopped working (Youtube Scope, K9 Copy program, and others) so I PPA purged and uninstalled the PPA from unity-team and it uninstalled more than I bargained for. Unity no longer works at all as well as Nautilus and other programs. Tried to reset them, not working, Tried to reinstall, and I keep getting errors that I have broken packages and it CAN’T install the required dependencies. So now I am sitting here reinstalling Ubuntu from scratch. :( 

        • bamdad khan

          you don’t have to reinstall. just see my previous comments, i’ve posted a way to effectively purge the ppa, but only if you haven’t accepted the faulty suggestions of ppa-purge.

          the author *really* needs to put that in the article, because ppa-purge by itself doesn’t work in this case. :(

        • Anonymous

          I think I have the same issue. Is there a solution besides a reinstall of 11.10? Cannot seem to get to my homefolder, nautilus doesn’t work and I have trouble logging onto the system…

  • Antonis Yperia

    Some unity scope lens stopped working after the update. Calculator, cities, youtube.etc.

    • http://twitter.com/dr3mro dr3mro

      yes me too .. is there a fix ?

      • https://launchpad.net/~afccarl1994 Carl Ansell

        Same here.

        If you change the ppa distribution to precise in software sources, you can install the precise version of the lenses/scopes.

        While this does not work yet, they will eventually have to be fixed as precise will use Unity 5.

        • http://twitter.com/dr3mro dr3mro

          there is a fix by linkling old to new unity libs in the below comments is there any thing similar ?

  • http://twitter.com/flux_box Luigi

    sorry for OT but… galaxy wallpaper? where can i find it?

  • Antonis Yperia

    Some unity scope lens stopped working after the update. Calculator, cities, youtube.etc.

  • syncdram syncdram

    testing purposes only. not for your 11.10 production machine yet. other  wise you won’t be happy with it at all. 

  • Piotr Maciejko

    How about performance? Is it better than previous version or same? Im asking because on previous version. I had a lot of problems with performance on intel pentium dual core, 4 DDR2 RAM, Geforce G103M and I have to back to 10.04.

    • Anonymous

      Its said in one of the other articles, that it’s way more responsive and stable :)

      • Freddi

        How can a testing version be more stable than the previous “stable” release? I mean we test it to find the bugs…

        But so far no crashes ;-)

        • Anonymous

          I think precise is mostly for bug fixes, so any progress is good progress

          • http://twitter.com/MotionShot Heimen Stoffels

            I don’t think “lock to launcher” is a fix to anything as it’s just a text change. But I do get your point.

        • Anonymous

          It’s like that for the first release of a piece of software and when adding “cutting edge new features”, but not when basically all development goes to “stabilisation” :).

          As lkm32 said, any progress is good progress.

    • Anonymous

      Yes, performance is going better in comparison with unity 4. I checked it on my laptop with Athlon II Dual-Core, 4GB RAM and shitty AMD Radeon 4200

  • https://launchpad.net/~r.phate Rigved Rakshit

    AFAIK, a “sudo apt-get dist-upgrade” will upgrade Ubuntu 11.10 users to Ubuntu 12.04. Or am I wrong…

    • Christophe Vanlancker

      the command do-release-upgrade will do that, so no worries

    • http://ustoqus.com Arash Badie Modiri

      “dist-upgrade” will just allow apt to remove packages when needed while upgrading other ones (libunity-core-4.0-4 in this case) while using “upgrade” will hold back those upgrades that depend on removing a package.

  • Grady Fields

    Performance is noticeably better but the calculator lens I had no longer works.
    Also Deja Dup has stopped working because libunity.so.6 is not found.

  • http://www.metallic-entertainment.com Florian Märkl

    You don’t have to reboot (This is not Windows). Just log out and in again.

    • http://ubuntu-su.blogspot.com/ Kleverson Royther

      You don’t need to log out (this is not Windows). Just type “unity” or “unity –replace” in Alt+F2

      • https://launchpad.net/~rafalcieslak256 rc

        I’d rather say “this is not Gnome-Shell”.

        • http://ubuntu-su.blogspot.com/ Kleverson Royther

          GNOME Shell doesn’t need either. Just open ALT+F2 command bar and type “r” to restart it.

      • Max Vogan

        hahaha funny

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PXOUQAMIXE53JTFAHOVQQ35LYM Sotos Sotos

    Is there any update for unity 2d in this ppa?

    • http://www.dennisaltermann.com.br/ Dennis Altermann

      I think the Unity 2d have it own daily ppa. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PXOUQAMIXE53JTFAHOVQQ35LYM Sotos Sotos

    Is there any update for unity 2d in this ppa?

    • Anonymous

      I saw it was replacing that package when I was upgrading, so I assume so.

      • Scott Rosenquist

        Pretty sure the replacing of 2D Unity is how Unity 5.0 is achieved. Correct me if I’m wrong internets but I believe Unity 2D is sacrificed for Unity 5.0.

        • http://ubuntu-su.blogspot.com/ Kleverson Royther

          Not, it’s not. You’re thinking of Ubuntu TV. The only issue is that it has some bugs when you upgrade, all of them are already logged and will see a fix for 12.04.

          • Scott Rosenquist

            Right, that’s what I remembered. Thanks.

    • Badri Venkatavaradan

      Yes, it got updated for me.

  • http://borgdylan.posterous.com Dylan Borg

    I backported unity 5 myself, like that I made sure all would work by compiling the packages.

    • http://twitter.com/dr3mro dr3mro

      what is the ppa you made?

      • Piotr Maciejko

        He didnt make any ppa. He dont need ppa. He compile all programs and system himself :D

  • Courtney Gibbons

    Off-topic, sorry, BUT: I really, really love that cardboard mountain wallpaper.  Where can I find it?  (I’ve hit the end of my rope and finally had to comment about it–my google-fu is weak and I couldn’t find it myself)

  • http://twitter.com/dr3mro dr3mro
  • Marc Descharles

    Hi, I’m looking for the space walpaper. Where I con find it please ?

    • Anonymous

      Look at the top of the comments. It’s a Mac Lion wallpaper :(

  • Yuri Gagarin

    Great, why do the window control buttons in the upper left of the Dash still look like unprofessional crap in Unity 5.0?

  • Yogotiss .

    Is that the “How It’s Made” theme song? lol Trying it out now

  • Anonymous

    So I tried it.
    Was really snappier, but all non-hilighted menu items were ridiculously dark, and changing themes didn`t help. So I decided to revert back. After using two commands posted above, I rebooted (first reboot ended with bsod, ending with line “checking battery state…”, while it`s a desktop pc), and now I`m warning everybody, while writing from some stripped gnome environment with the same dark menus in dark backgrounds.

  • Satchit Bhogle

    I hope Marlin works in the final release of 12.04. It’s really a lot better than Nautilus.

    • Chad Germann

      Nautilus is the Stable file manager as a result will see play as default for a long time.

  • Brian Oswald

    Not worth doing if it’s broken and unstable. Sorry, just don’t see the point until it’s more mature. We already have an alpha of 12.04 for testing purposes.

  • Henri Suominen

    Doesn’t support full screen Dash Home.

    • Anonymous

      Click the maximise button in the corner.

  • http://ubuntu-su.blogspot.com/ Kleverson Royther

    No need to restart your PC. Just restart Unity in a terminal or ALT+F2 with “unity” or “unity –replace”

  • Anonymous

    So you finaly removed your x lense :-)

  • http://twitter.com/deglavs Lnuk Wiigwaasabak

    I am still on 10.10. On newer versions my printer didn’t work. Is it corrected now?

    • https://launchpad.net/~danillo Danillo

      We don’t know what your printer is! =)

      Try running 12.04 on a live cd and pluging your printer. That’s the best way to find out!

  • http://twitter.com/raulvalino Raúl Valiño

    I installed it this afternoon at around 16:00, it’s 23:26 and I’m finally back… with a complete new installation of Ubuntu xD.

  • https://launchpad.net/~wfogl wf

    Any Problems with gnome-shell after update to unity 5.0?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_G56KQFKISTXJF4YFDE5WKKWUMI George Boumis

    worked perfect for me!!!

  • Anonymous

    It’s really fast & responsive….
    Thank you Ubuntu Team…

  • Mohammad Suhaimi

    i’d tried the installation of unity 5.0, somehow after a while, my laptop freesed, so decided tu purge back to old unity, follow the command, but somehow, I can’t login, my unity is gone when checking the menu before login

  • http://insane.pip.verisignlabs.com/ inSane

    “And yes – you can also disable the ‘Apps for Download’ section using Unity 5.0.”
    No, I can’t. I disable it and it is still there, even after a reboot…

  • http://fenryxo.cz Fenryxo

    If you have issues with missing libunity.so.6 you could get in touch with maintainers of Unity staging ppa – https://launchpad.net/~unity-team – and ask them why the PPA for Ubuntu 11.10 contains empty libunity6 package while the package in Ubuntu 12.04 ships required library (libunity.so.6).

    Symlink is an ugly hack, library names are usually changed for a nontrivial reason (binary incompatibility).

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7XTPV3RI2ERONQR57564XSPVH4 jeibie

    Try to downgrade. At login I got following error: 

    gnome-session: WARNING: Failed to acquire org.gnome.SessionManager: Could not acquire name on session bus

    What to do now?

  • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ActionParsnip ActionParsnip

    Funny how people will use 3rd party PPAs for stuff but won’t use the pre-release…. Its no bad thing to use stable but 3rd party repo for something like the UI shell is somewhat intriguing to me. C’est la vie

  • http://www.dennisaltermann.com.br/ Dennis Altermann

    I get an error in Empathy, something with unitylib.so.6. Then I purged the PPA and lost all Unity. Reinstalled the “ubuntu-desktop”, and it’s fine. But now, the nautilus won’t work, is something like:

    error while loading libnautilus-extensions.so.1

    Any ideia? I’m using Marlin to save the day, haha.

  • bamdad khan

    i’m trying to purge the ppa, but all i get is:

    (…)
    ‘The following packages have unmet dependencies:
      libunity-core-4.0-4: Depends: unity-services (= 4.24.0-0ubuntu2.1) but 4.22.0-0ubuntu3 is to be installed.’

    then aptitude kindly recommends that i remove some 200 packages.

    please, if anyone has a suggestion, please reply. thanks.

  • http://twitter.com/elbrujox El Brujo

    A mi me funciona bastante bien, dejó de funcionar brasero, pero aquí mismo dieron la solución (cuestión de librerías), por lo demás estoy bastante contento, creo que ahora si Canonical liberará una versión de Ubuntu digna de los linuxeros.

  • Andrea DeMarco

    This totally borked my system. I installed, it seemed to work fine, until I started frequent random crashes, requiring a pc restart everytime. So I purged it as instructed – all seemed fine until I next turned on my PC. It simply couldnt load Ubuntu…stuck at

    “Starting CUPS printing spooler/server”

    Back to re-installing Ubuntu from scratch now….and all the software pieces I need, all over again :/

  • Demetris Posnakides

    Search for file and folder was not working and decided to downgrade to original unity, as described above and now havent unity at all!!!

  • bamdad khan

    greetings,

    i’ve found a way around the dependency problem with ppa-purge that borks people’s systems. i thought i’d share. if it works for you, please ask the author to include my solution. 

    please note that if you did a ppa-purge earlier, and let aptitude remove half of unity, this will not help you.

    also keep in mind that if you cancelled the erroneous ppa-purge before, you have to re-enable the unity-team/staging ppa in software sources.

    so let’s get started, shall we?

    download my deb editor script and make it executable:

    $ wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1242680/videb.sh && chmod +x videb.sh

    i invite you to read it in case you don’t trust me. the next step is to edit the .deb package file you probably still have in your apt cache:

    $ videb /var/cache/apt/archives/libunity-core-4.0-4_4.24.0-0ubuntu2.1_amd64.deb

    now, on the ‘depends’ line, change ‘unity-services (= 4.24.0-0ubuntu2.1)’ to ‘unity-services (= 4.22.0-0ubuntu3)’ and save the file. the script will generate a .deb for you in the $PWD (your working directory).

    next, install the file:

    $ sudo dpkg -i libunity-core-4.0-4_4.24.0-0ubuntu2.1_amd64.deb.deb.modified.deb

    it will vomit some errors about broken packages, because you still have the unity 5 stuff installed, but don’t worry, that’s the next thing we’re going to address. so *now* you can use ppa-purge:

    $ sudo ppa-purge ppa:unity-team/staging

    it won’t throw errors now, so you can probably safely say ‘yes’ to the aptitude downgrade prompt.

    you’re done. :)

    • bamdad khan

      on a side note, the problem is actually the result of ppa-purge wanting to use the packages from the main repo, but most of them have newer versions installed by now, from the updates repo.

      if you try to use my solution, please note that the dropbox link to my script has been cropped by this site, so you need the *full* address there (hover over the link).

      hope this helps guys.

    • bamdad khan

      whoops! errata! the second line should be:

      $ ./videb.sh /var/cache/apt/archives/libunity-core-4.0-4_4.24.0-0ubuntu2.1_amd64.deb

      • bamdad khan

        one last thing: after the whole process is done, you want to do a ‘sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade’ and maybe a ‘sudo aptitude reinstall libnautilus-extension1′.

        there. finished. :)

        • Jeff Hedfors

          sudo aptitude reinstall libnautilus-extension1

          This was that last missing piece – Thanks!

  • http://www.dennisaltermann.com.br/ Dennis Altermann

    Got the same problem as Empathy in Skype, but with the libxss.so.1. Any suggestion? :)

  • Paul Williams

    This works pretty good, and didn’t break my gwibber lens, akubuntu lens doesnt find any results for anything though… Main problem is running dual mointors is really messed up, i’ve a netbook and a monitor running luvly on the previous unity, but on this one it’s screwed up..   Aside from that it was working good, and does appear ‘snappier’ somehow.  Going back to the previous unity now though, until all is sorted :)

  • Corrado Zanella

    This was a really bad suggestion. Since Brasero didn’t work, I followed the instructions for downgradng Unity 5.0 and messed all up.

    Now in particular Nautilus isn’t working. Error: nautilus: error while loading shared libraries: libnautilus-extension.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

    • bamdad khan

      did you follow my instructions? if so, just do an ‘aptitude reinstall libnautilus-extension1′ (as i said in my previous comment) and do a re-login.

      • Corrado Zanella

        Yes it worked. Thank you.

  • http://twitter.com/sionmnt Teddy Mutombo

    Unity stopped working so I ran
    sudo apt-get install ppa-purgesudo ppa-purge ppa:unity-team/stagingrebootthen i tried unity totally disappear then I runsudo apt-get install –reinstall ubuntu-desktopNow i can’t get Unity 5.0 back
    What can I do to install it again

  • Jacquespdb

    for those who purged and lost 3/4 of their unity, a simple tip:
    press alt-f2 and enter “unity –reset”  without the quotes
     (worked for me)

  • Vangelis Afantenos

    Hello People,

    After upgrade, the chat from menu stops working …
    i click on envelope icon and nothing happens .. no error … just nothing :)

    is this a known bug? … can i check for this error on log files somehow ?

    thank u

    Vangelis

  • SixOfJune

    Compiz wasn’t workiing after I installed Unity 5.0 and every time Unity falls back to Unity 2D

  • Kissa

    I tested it, didnt like it and ran those commands to downgrade unity and after that i wasnt be able to get into desktop so i pressed CTRL + ALT + F2 and ran sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

  • Anonymous

    after the downgrade (‘It’s all gone wrong! Halp’), I’m really  lost: cannot pass the login-screen, and when I do this with ctrl-f1 (shell) and then do $ sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop , then ctrl-f7, I can get to my desktop, but then nautilus doesn’t work… And I have to do this each time I start my pc… Any one with the same issue?

  • Shannon VanWagner

    Thanks for the easy instructions! I’m really liking unity 5 but I think it broke my brasero disc-burner app. So when I tried starting brasero from the command line, I was getting the error:
    brasero: error while loading shared libraries: libunity.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
    After looking around, I found the fix is simple.. just a bit of re-linking:
    sudo ln /usr/lib/libunity.so.9 /usr/lib/libunity.so.6

  • Badri Venkatavaradan

    I tried this  for Liferea to see if it works before I saw the comment :)

  • Badri Venkatavaradan

    How do you get back the Gwibber lens? It’s not working for me, but it seems to be working in your screenshot.

    The Diodon lens has also vanished. :(

  • Max Vogan

    do you get bug fixes through update manager as the unity team corrects bugs ?

  • Orfeo Ciano

    Doesn’t work here anymore…

  • Chris Langton

    EVERYONE

    using this PPA will break brasero, and marlin.

    if you get the following;

    ######################
    brasero: error while loading shared libraries: libunity.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
    ######################

    then you will need to link the existing /usr/lib/libunity.so.9 to /usr/lib/libunity.so.6.

    for Ubuntu 11.10 run this in the terminal;

    sudo ln /usr/lib/libunity.so.9 /usr/lib/libunity.so.6

  • Christophe Vanlancker

    It looks like information was removed from Package list of the repository so you can’t upgrade to the Unity 5.0

  • Anonymous

    It doesn’t update :/

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:unity-team/staging
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
    -> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
    aptitude show unity
    -> Version: 4.28.0-0ubuntu2

  • http://twitter.com/pst007x Paolino Turone

    Unfortunately didn’t work for me. installation seemed to go ok, no errors, but never upgraded unity… Tried “unity –replace” in Alt+F, rebooting, etc..  I’ll wait for the official release :-)

  • Nathan Cox

    I can’t get this to work for some reason. I add the PPA with success (and can see it listed in the software sources, but after an apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade I’m informed that there are no new upgrades to be installed.

 
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