We do not support such actions as it will break your Backtrack installation, if you choose to try and install Gnome 3 you are on your own.
Is it possible to install gnome 3 on Backtrack 5 R1?
It seams to be possible in older versions of Ubuntu (on which Backtrack is now based), but they don't seam to work on Backtrack. I tried a few tutorials like this one
Has anyone been successful with installing gnome 3?
We do not support such actions as it will break your Backtrack installation, if you choose to try and install Gnome 3 you are on your own.
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