[Solved] How to get testing packages with Fedora? (Or = how do I get Gnome 3.16 with Fedora 21?)

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I just installed Fedora Workstation 21, which is great by the way, and the Gnome version seems to be 3.14.

https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/gnome-shell

3.16 is currently in testing and will come in 22. However, I want it now. How would I go about installing the 3.16 version?

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Do you have yumex installed (yum extender)? I think it's installed by default these days, if not, su -c 'yum install yumex'.

Then, activate the repositories for Gnome 3.16 from rawhide. You need to activate two, and accept the authentication keys for them, namely the rawhide:GNOME and the rawhide:GNOME_backports. These can be easily selected from the repositories tab in yumex to install them. After that, do a yum upgrade, and you should be on Gnome 3.16 on your fc21 install.

Don't expect too much yet from Gnome 3.16 though. It still has some strange quirks, especially on Wayland. With Gnome 3.16, gdm is on Wayland, so your login screen pops up when you update gnome packages (which is almost daily because, well, rawhide development branch lolz...). In Gnome 3.16 on Wayland, you can't really expect to have a stable system if you're using non-open-source graphics drivers, and there are some pretty weird things, like in games that were ported to linux/X11, the mouse goes haywire, or in nautilus, sometimes things don't work as you'd expect them to work, and some other things.

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I would wait for Fedora 22
you got 11 days till its released out of beta.

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Wait for Fedora 22. You can use testing, but you might lose rmpfusion and the rest as they dont sync up with releases the same time Fedora testing versions change.

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Shit you reminded me that Non Free repo is not up for 22 yet.
So you might have to wait for like 30-40 days until Fedora 22 has full support from all major parties.

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rpmfusion rawhide is fc22 so hopefully that will switch over fairly quick.

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Alright. Thanks for the replies.

The reason for the upgrade was that I wanted to use this fantastic gtk theme that had some problems with 3.14

but if I had bothered to read one sentence more, I would have noticed that

However a version of the theme with normal window controls named BasePop can be used.

So I don't really need to upgrade after all... sorry for wasting everyone's time. Marked as solved.