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I have a 15.10 installed on a machine since the beta release. Today (official release of 15.10) I did an update. I thought I would have been able to test unity 8.

But the greeter is the same and I don't know how to launch the unity 8 session.

Old questions about unity 8 are not an option, since today Canonical says that "In 15.10, Unity8 is demonstrating Canonical’s convergence vision as a tech preview. Users can log into a Unity8 session on the desktop, experience the new features, and cleanly revert to the default Unity7 experience."

Luca Dionisi
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    Possible duplicate of Can you run unity8 as your desktop? – dobey Oct 22 '15 at 17:03
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    @dobey That question was old. The answer points to unity8-desktop-session which has not a serie for wily.

    I see that there is a package called unity8-desktop-session-mir. I don't know if I have to use that. It seems improbable to me that Canonical says "users can log into..." if this was the path to go.

     – Luca Dionisi Oct 22 '15 at 17:33
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    Unity 8 is not part of the default install. You must install the packages to get the session. I added a new answer to the other question. You need to install the ubuntu-touch package (this is the same seed package used to build the phone images). However, this won't install all the default apps, which come from the app store, on the phone; only the debian packages installed by default in the phone images. – dobey Oct 22 '15 at 18:53
  • Doing an install of package ubuntu-touch requires fixing unmet dependencies. I did some not-well-understood choices in aptitude and this resulted in an unbootable system.

    I re-installed and I am giving up the unity 8 testing.

     – Luca Dionisi Oct 23 '15 at 11:48
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    Possible duplicate of How to install Unity 8? – Rinzwind Nov 02 '15 at 07:44
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    You have to scroll down a bit but this one explains it pretty well http://askubuntu.com/questions/447891/how-to-install-unity-8 – codedcosmos Nov 02 '15 at 07:09

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Im pretty sure you can install it with sudo apt-get install unity8, whether you can easily swap between it is another thing entierly

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