I would love to try out the latest gnome-shell from git but it is having difficulty compiling on my machine. Not to mention, it's an extremely time-consuming process with terse error messages, so it's been hours of trial-and-error so far. I even tried it on a natty setup but it didn't work. The one from the repos works great, but it's fairly outdated from what I understand. Are there any charitable devs out there that want to contribute a deb or PPA for those of us who would like to try it out?
Ubuntu – find the most recent snapshot of gnome-shell
10.10gnome
Best Answer
There doesn't appear to be a PPA of git snapshots for 10.10, unfortunately. However, it is actually rather simple to build yourself: upstream (gnome-shell developers) have provided an easy-to-follow guide telling you how to do this. You could give that a go.