Unity 2D No Longer Installed By Default, Removed From The Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal Repositories

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NGu-CTnOekQ/UCujh5kRXUI/AAAAAAAAJqs/2Eip4CsDs_o/s1600/unity-2d.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="210" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NGu-CTnOekQ/UCujh5kRXUI/AAAAAAAAJqs/2Eip4CsDs_o/s320/unity-2d.png" title="unity 2D" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">According to the latest "<a href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/quantal/+source/ubuntu-meta/1.280">ubuntu-meta</a>" package update from the Ubuntu Quantal Quetzal repositories, Unity 2D will no longer be installed by default in Ubuntu 12.10, and Unity 2D users are being transitioned to the Unity 3D session, just like it was discussed at <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/05/uds-q-news-unity-2d-might-go-away-more.html" title="UDS-Q News: Unity 2D Might Go Away, More [Ubuntu 12.10]">UDS-Q</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Further more, the <a href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/quantal/+source/unity/6.2.0-0ubuntu2">latest</a> Unity package, uploaded to the Ubuntu Quantal repositories a few hours ago, uses a <a href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/quantal/i386/unity-2d/6.2.0-0ubuntu2">"dummy" Unity-2D package,</a> so <b>Unity 2D is no longer available in the repositories </b>and won't be installable at all in Quantal. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ubuntu users without graphical acceleration will be able to use Unity 3D thanks to <a href="http://www.mesa3d.org/llvmpipe.html">llvmpipe</a>, so there will be no fallback session anymore and Unity will look the same for all users.</div>

Unity 2D No Longer Installed By Default, Removed From The Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal Repositories

According to the latest " ubuntu-meta " package update from the Ubuntu Quantal Quetzal repositories, Unity 2D will no longer be in...

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