Is there a way to install and use smart scopes in 13.04 ?

Question

I would like to try the smart scopes feature because this would be the only reason for me to upgrade to saucy. is there a way to try the feature (the final version used in saucy) in ubuntu 13.04 ? And would I be able to uninstall it if I decide I don't like it?

Answer 1

You can install smart scopes from this ppa :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-unity/experimental-certified
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-unity-experimental-certified
sudo apt-get upgrade

then restart.

To uninstall simply run

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntu-unity/experimental-certified

If the purge segfaults you can try

sudo sed -i 's/^deb/#deb/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-unity-experimental-certified-raring.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-unity-experimental-certified
sudo apt-get install gir1.2-dee-1.0/raring gir1.2-unity-5.0/raring libdee-1.0-4/raring libdee-dev/raring libunity-common/raring libunity-core-6.0-5/raring libunity-dev/raring libunity-protocol-private0/raring libunity9/raring unity/raring unity-common/raring unity-lens-applications/raring unity-lens-files/raring unity-lens-music/raring unity-lens-photos/raring unity-lens-video/raring unity-lens-friends/raring unity-scope-musicstores/raring unity-scope-video-remote/raring unity-services/raring unity-scope-gdocs/raring unity-scope-gdrive/raring

Full info here : http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/how-to-install-unity-smart-scopes-in.html