Canonical will stop to invest Unity and will change defalt desktop environment from Unity to GNOME in Ubuntu 18.04. This article will describe using GNOME as desktop environment in Ubuntu 16.04.
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1 Install GNOME
Install ubuntu-gnome-desktop package.
$ sudo apt install -y expect $ cat <<EOF | expect set timeout -1 spawn sudo apt install -y ubuntu-gnome-desktop expect "Default display manager: " send "gdm3\n" expect eof EOF $ sudo reboot
2 Select desktop environment
Select desktop environment.
2.1 GNOME
This is used in Fedora.
2.2 GNOME Classic
This is used in CentOS.