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[#]: subject: "You Can Now Install Unity 7.6 Desktop on Arch Linux"
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[#]: via: "https://news.itsfoss.com/unity-arch-linux/"
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[#]: author: "Sourav Rudra https://news.itsfoss.com/author/sourav/"
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[#]: collector: "lkxed"
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You Can Now Install Unity 7.6 Desktop on Arch Linux
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Unity Desktop is a classic desktop environment built by Canonical and was a part of Ubuntu from 2010 to 2017 but dropped in favor of GNOME.
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And, we thought it was killed forever. But it made a comeback.
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Earlier this year, a revamped version of Unity was released after a long 6-year period since its last update in May 2016.
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The development was spearheaded by a young developer [Rudra Saraswat][1], who is also the creator of [Ubuntu Unity][1], an official flavor of Ubuntu now.
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The release of Unity 7.6 marked the arrival of a host of improvements.
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And, to take that further, Unity 7.6 has been made available for Arch Linux. The developer mentions:
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> This port is based on an earlier effort, Unity-for-Arch by chenxiaolong (maintained from 2011-2016).
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### Trying Unity 7.6 on Arch Linux
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![unity on arch linux][2]
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First, you must ensure that you have Arch Linux already set up.
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Then you can follow these steps to run Unity 7.6 on Arch Linux:
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- **Install '[Paru][3]', it is an AUR helper.**
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- **Install a script called 'unity-installer-arch' using 'paru -S unity-installer-arch'**
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- **Run 'unity-installer-arch' in a TTY/terminal window.**
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- **Select 'Install Unity desktop'.**
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- **Change default display manager to 'lightdm'.**
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- **Use 'unity-greeter' as the default greeter.**
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My colleague Sreenath tried it out, and during installation, he had to start with a fresh copy of Arch because of multiple dependency conflicts.
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It may be different for you, but do keep that in mind. If you do not want to spend time on that, you might want to try [Ubuntu Unity][4] instead.
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### Wrapping Up
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For Unity desktop fans, this is a good thing. More distributions may consider having a variant with a Unity desktop on board.
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Do you want that to happen?
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_💬 Are you an existing user of Unity desktop? Want to give it a try? Share your thoughts in the comments._
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via: https://news.itsfoss.com/unity-arch-linux/
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作者：[Sourav Rudra][a]
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选题：[lkxed][b]
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译者：[译者ID](https://github.com/译者ID)
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校对：[校对者ID](https://github.com/校对者ID)
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本文由 [LCTT](https://github.com/LCTT/TranslateProject) 原创编译，[Linux中国](https://linux.cn/) 荣誉推出
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[a]: https://news.itsfoss.com/author/sourav/
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[b]: https://github.com/lkxed
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[1]: https://about.ruds.io
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[2]: https://news.itsfoss.com/content/images/2022/11/unity_for_arch.jpg
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[3]: https://itsfoss.com/paru-aur-helper/
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[4]: https://ubuntuunity.org
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