How to uninstall and reinstall GNOME 3.10?

Solution 1:

Try this, just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command(s) below:

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging
sudo ppa-purge ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-next

Then reconfigure either GDM or LightDM, whichever one you like

sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm

OR

sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm

If you don't get 3.8 back, do

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
sudo apt-get update

Solution 2:

You can install a specific version of a package via equality sign:

apt-get install <package name>=<version>

But first you have to find out which versions are available by:

apt-cache madison <package name>

For example with the package binutils:

# apt-cache madison binutils
  binutils | 2.22-6ubuntu1.1 | http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main amd64 Packages
  binutils | 2.22-6ubuntu1.1 | http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-security/main amd64 Packages
  binutils | 2.22-6ubuntu1 | http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
  binutils | 2.22-6ubuntu1 | http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main Sources
  binutils | 2.22-6ubuntu1.1 | http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main Sources
  binutils | 2.22-6ubuntu1.1 | http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-security/main Sources

Then take one of the version numbers the command with the apt-get install command, for example:

apt-get install binutils=2.22-6ubuntu1.1