[ Thanks to Ian MacGregor for this
link. ]
“It’s important to note that GNOME Shell is still in
fairly early development, more informatioin about GNOME Shell can
be found here. I closed all applications except for a single GNOME
terminal. I installed jhbuild with the command: sudo apt-get
install jhbuild“I then grabbed the GNOME Shell build script with the
command:wget http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gnome-shell/plain/tools/build/gnome-shell-build-setup.sh“I ran the setup script with the command: bash
gnome-shell-build-setup.sh“The setup script seems to check for dependencies because I was
presented with a message listing some dependencies I needed to
install and then told to run the setup script again. I used apt-get
to install the dependencies and ran the setup script a second time
which was successful.”