Nope, the problem is, several months ago the Natty users CAN install gnome-shell from the gnome3 ppa, and in fact many of them did install gnome-shell from the gnome3 ppa, whereas now they CAN NOT. The same gnome3 ppa still exists and one can see all the package lists on their web page, but apt-get fails to get any packages from the ppa with error message : E: Package 'gnome-shell' has no installation candidate.
Maybe the funniest thing is, there is no explanation on the gnome3 team ppa web page at all, who just behave as nothing is wrong. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-session in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/710171 Title: gnome3-session is not installable as gnome-shell doesn't exist Status in “gnome-session” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Binary package hint: gnome3-session $ sudo apt-get install gnome3-session Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies. gnome3-session : Depends: gnome-shell but it is not installable E: Broken packages $ sudo apt-get install gnome-shell Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package gnome-shell is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Package 'gnome-shell' has no installation candidate ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: gnome3-session (not installed) ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-1.28-generic 2.6.38-rc2 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-1-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Sun Jan 30 13:47:39 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-session To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/710171/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
