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I'm running Ubuntu GNOME 15.10, and I would like to update GNOME to 3.18. I have tried using the normal terminal commands suggested to update GNOME like

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging

and

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

However, using an AMD GPU and wanting to continue using the proprietary drivers for now, I would like to stay on Ubuntu 15.10 and not upgrade to 16.04 LTS, but these commands seem to both upgrade GNOME and upgrade Ubuntu to 16.04 LTS. So, is there any way to stay on Ubuntu 15.10 and just upgrade GNOME to 3.18?

Thanks.

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  • What about running sudo apt-get upgrade?
    – TheWanderer
    Commented May 22, 2016 at 12:46
  • tried running sudo apt-get upgrade after running sudo apt-add-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3 sudo apt-add-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging but the GNOME version stayed the same.
    – horace528
    Commented May 22, 2016 at 13:04
  • You have to run sudo apt-get update after adding a repository, otherwise you won't see any new packages. If you ran sudo apt-get upgrade before sudo apt-get update, run it again.
    – TheWanderer
    Commented May 22, 2016 at 13:07
  • ran update and then upgrade, GNOME still is at 3.16. Believe that GNOME updates are being held back for some reason due to many gnome packages like gnome-shell and gnome-control-center are shown to be "kept back".
    – horace528
    Commented May 22, 2016 at 13:16
  • Well dist-upgrade shouldn't upgrade your Ubuntu release. That's do-release-upgrade
    – TheWanderer
    Commented May 22, 2016 at 13:18

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