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I have installed gnome-shell with



sudo apt-get install gnome-shell


and its successfully installed but I cant find it in the sessions list at login screen. what might be the reason ?



Here are the needed details



august@august-OEM:~$ ls  /usr/share/xsessions
awesome.desktop cinnamon2d.desktop xfce.desktop
cairo-dock.desktop cinnamon.desktop xubuntu.desktop

august@august-OEM:~$ apt-cache policy gnome-shell
gnome-shell:
Installed: 3.8.4-0ubuntu5
Candidate: 3.8.4-0ubuntu5
Version table:
*** 3.8.4-0ubuntu5 0
500 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/universe i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
august@august-OEM:~$

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gnome-shell, while containing the actual shell used for your Gnome session, does not come with a xsession file.



The xsession file for Gnome is part of the package gnome-session. Install that, after logging out you should be able to pick Gnome from your login manager's list.


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