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What is GNOME?
The GNOME Desktop is an attractive and useful desktop environment. GNOME is both free and one of the most widely used desktop environments on the GNU/Linux operating system.
GNOME in Debian
GNOME is one of the DesktopEnvironment options in the DebianDesktopHowTo.
Versions
DebianSqueeze includes GNOME 2.30.
DebianWheezy includes GNOME 3.4.
DebianJessie includes GNOME 3.14.
DebianStretch includes GNOME 3.22.
DebianUnstable/DebianTesting is currently tracking GNOME 3.26.
Options
There are four options to install GNOME in Debian:
How to install |
Description |
|
GNOME desktop task |
tasksel see below |
Debian's selection of applications |
GNOME (Debian) |
gnome package |
The full GNOME environment, including applications that are not officially part of the Upstream GNOME releases. |
GNOME (core only) |
gnome-core package |
Only the official “core” modules of the GNOME desktop. Above packages depend on this one. |
Watch out recommended packages (i.e. packages dependencies) !
(you might or might not want to install them).
For developers:
gnome-core-devel - The development packages to compile GNOME dependent packages from source.
gnome-devel - A full development suite for developing GNOME-based applications.
gnome-api-docs - The complete API documentation for all GNOME libraries
gnome-dbg - All available debugging symbols for GNOME packages
Installing "GNOME Desktop" task
The GNOME Desktop task is what is installed by Debian-Installer's Desktop "task" (unless you picked another DesktopEnvironment!).
You can install it manually using apt:
# apt-get install task-gnome-desktop
Content
The "GNOME Desktop" task is the combination of tasksel's common desktop (task-desktop) and tasksel's GNOME desktop (task-gnome-desktop) meta-packages.
Configuration
Most configuration of the GNOME desktop is done via its various GUI utilities. The location of these varies depending on version, but common utilities include networking, themes, sounds and much more. It is also possible to configure (read/write) settings using the command line with gconftool(2) or gsettings (1).
See also
https://www.gnome.org The GNOME Website
http://news.gnome.org/ GNOME News
https://extensions.gnome.org/ GNOME Extensions
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps GNOME Applications
http://www.gnomefiles.org Categorized list of GNOME programs.
About GNOME for Debian:
Teams/DebianGnome Debian GNOME Packaging
https://www.0d.be/debian/debian-gnome-3.4-status.html Status of GNOME 3.4 in Debian (wheezy, AKA 'oldoldstable')
https://www.0d.be/debian/debian-gnome-3.14-status.html Status of GNOME 3.14 in Debian (jessie, AKA 'oldstable')
https://www.0d.be/debian/debian-gnome-3.22-status.html Status of GNOME 3.22 in Debian (stretch, current stable)
https://www.0d.be/debian/debian-gnome-3.24-status.html Status of GNOME 3.24 in Debian (current upstream release)
https://www.0d.be/debian/debian-gnome-3.26-status.html Status of GNOME 3.26 in Debian (upcoming release, 13th September 2017)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-gtk-gnome/ Debian / GNOME Mailing list