gnome desktop 3.15.2.1 released, install on Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Ubuntu 15.04/14.10/14.04/13.10/13.04/12.04

gnome desktop 3.15.2.1 released, install on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/2.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems

gnome desktop is an open source and completely free package that contains the libgnome-desktop library, the gnome-about program and desktop-wide documents, which are essential components of the for the GNOME desktop environment.

What's New in This Release:

• Fix thumbnailing failures due to internal cleanups (#684026)

Getting started with gnome-desktop :

Usually, end-users shouldn’t install the gnome-desktop program separately from GNOME, as it won’t work and it’s installed by default with each new installation of the popular desktop environment.

The package provided here should be used by advanced Linux users who want to tweak it for their computer architecture, as well as Linux distribution developers who want to install the package from sources.

Once installed (see below for manual installation instructions), the gnome-about and the respective GNOME documentation will be accessible to all users of the desktop environment. It has been successfully tested with 32-bit and 64-bit GNU/Linux operating systems.

Installing gnome desktop 3.15.2.1 :

To install the gnome-desktop package on your GNU/Linux system, download it from the dedicated download section above, save the file somewhere on your computer, unpack it and extract its contents.

Open a terminal emulator, navigate to the location of the extracted archive files with the ‘cd’ command, run the ‘./configure && make’ command to optimize and compile the software, followed by the ‘make install’ command as root or with sudo to install it system wide. For information about gnome 3.14.1 on ubuntu and linux mint you can follow this page.

To build GNOME 3.15.2, you can use the jhbuild [1] modulesets [2]
(which use the exact tarball versions from the official release).

[1] http://library.gnome.org/devel/jhbuild/
[2] http://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/3.15.2/

The release notes that describe the changes between 3.15.1 and 3.15.2
are available. Go read them to learn what's new in this release:

core - http://download.gnome.org/core/3.15/3.15.2/NEWS
apps - http://download.gnome.org/apps/3.15/3.15.2/NEWS
The GNOME 3.15.2 release is available here:

core sources - http://download.gnome.org/core/3.15/3.15.2
apps sources - http://download.gnome.org/apps/3.15/3.15.2


WARNING !

This release is a snapshot of early development code. Although it is
buildable and usable, it is primarily intended for testing and hacking
purposes. GNOME uses odd minor version numbers to indicate development status.

For more information about 3.15, the full schedule, the official
module lists and the proposed module lists, please see our brandnew
3.15 page:

http://www.gnome.org/start/unstable

For a quick overview of the GNOME schedule, please see:
http://live.gnome.org/Schedule

install gnome desktop 3.15.2.1 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/2.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems :

To install gnome desktop 3.15.2.1 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/2.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, , open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ricotz/testing
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

To reverse the changes, do:

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

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