Hello Linux Geeksters. As you know, the Gnome Classic Menu Indicator is a the notification area applet used on GNOME 2. (The default desktop environment of Ubuntu 11.10). It provides a classic GNOME-style application menu for those who don’t like the Unity Dash.
The latest version available is Gnome Classic Menu Indicator 0.09, which has been released a while ago, coming with support for Ubuntu 14.10.
In this article I will show you how to instal Gnome Classic Menu Indicator 0.09 on Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr and Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin.
Because it is available via PPA, installing Gnome Classic Menu Indicator 0.09 on the latest Ubuntu systems is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, update the local repository index and install the classicmenu-indicator package. Like this:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:diesch/testing
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install classicmenu-indicator
Optional, to remove the classicmenu-indicator, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove classicmenu-indicator
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