{"id":5004,"date":"2015-06-04T04:12:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T04:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=5004"},"modified":"2015-06-04T04:12:22","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T04:12:22","slug":"install-unity-8-mir-ubuntu-ppa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2015\/06\/install-unity-8-mir-ubuntu-ppa\/","title":{"rendered":"Install the Latest Unity 8 and Mir in Ubuntu 14.04\/15.04 via PPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/unity-desktop-icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/unity-desktop-icon.png\" alt=\"unity-desktop-icon\" width=\"245\" height=\"245\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5006\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/unity-desktop-icon.png 245w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/unity-desktop-icon-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>For those who are interested in testing the latest Unity 8, the next generation Unity shell running on the Mir display, you can now install a preview from PPA.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>A Launchpad project, <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/unity8-preview-lxc\" target=\"_blank\">Unity8 Desktop Preview in LXC<\/a>, is a set of tools and scripts to run the Unity 8 desktop preview ISO in a Linux container on released Ubuntu versions starting with Trusty (14.04). User can log in to the Unity 8 LXC session from LightDM greeter just as they would any normal session.<\/p>\n<p><b>Install Unity 8 Preview via PPA:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A PPA has been created for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 15.04 and next Ubuntu 15.10.<\/p>\n<p>1. To add the PPA, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) from the Dash\/launcher and run:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-add-repository ppa:unity8-desktop-session-team\/unity8-preview-lxc<\/pre>\n<p>2. update your system cache by running command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade<\/pre>\n<p>3. Install the package for Unity 8 in lxc:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get install unity8-lxc<\/pre>\n<p>Note: This installs a slightly modified version of lightdm that works allows the lxc container login.<\/p>\n<p>4. To set up the Unity8 Desktop Preview LXC, you need to run:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo unity8-lxc-setup<\/pre>\n<p>What this does is setup the configuration for the LXC, downloads the ISO and then extracts it, and then any last bits of setup necessary to make it work.<\/p>\n<p>Finally restart your computer and you should be able to select log in &#8220;Unity 8 in LXC&#8221; session from lightdm login screen. For more, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/Unity8inLXC\" target=\"_blank\">wiki page<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who are interested in testing the latest Unity 8, the next generation Unity shell running on the Mir display, you can now install a preview from PPA. A Launchpad project, Unity8 Desktop Preview in LXC, is a set of tools and scripts to run the Unity 8 desktop preview ISO in a Linux [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1280,1279],"class_list":["post-5004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-mir","tag-unity-8"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}