Getting GNOME

GNOME can be downloaded and installed as a part of a distribution, which also include many GNOME applications. Here’s how you can start using GNOME 3 today.


Live Images

You can try GNOME 3 right now by using a live version from a CD/DVD or USB stick. This lets you try all the GNOME 3 features without having to install it on your computer.

GNOME 3.2 on openSUSE

Download for 32 bit systems

Download for 64 bit systems

The user name for the openSUSE live image is ‘tux’ and the password is empty.


To run from a CD/DVD, burn the download to a disk, insert into your computer and reboot.

To run the GNOME 3 from a USB stick:

  • Download the USB image writer (below) and extract it
  • Open a terminal and navigate to the extracted image writer folder (eg. $ cd Downloads/abock-image-usb-stick-f3b1002)
  • Prepare the image writer by running: $ chmod a+x ./image-usb-stick
  • Remove any USB storage devices that you might have connected to your computer and insert the empty USB stick that you want to write to
  • Run the image writer script: $ sudo ./image-usb-stick path_to_the_live_image.iso (the script requires Python 2.x)
  • To run the live image, reboot your computer with the USB stick attached
Download USB image writer

Distributions

Some of the most popular distributions will be shipping GNOME 3 as part of the their next releases.

Fedora

Just install or try it live to use GNOME 3.

Mageia

GNOME 3 will be part of Mageia 2.

Arch Linux

Arch Linux has GNOME 3 in the extra repository.

Ubuntu

From Oneiric (11.10) onwards, GNOME is just a click away.

Debian

GNOME 3 is available from the wheezy/testing repository.


Get the code!

GNOME’s software is Free Software: all our code is available for download and can be freely modified and redistributed. There are several ways to get our code: