MATE is a fork of Gnome 2.It provides an intuitive and attractive desktop to Linux users using traditional metaphors.
The name “MATE” comes from yerba maté, a species of holly native to subtropical South America. Its leaves contain caffeine and are used to make infusions and a beverage called mate.
What is new in MATE 1.2 version
Numerous bug fixes
All conflicts with GNOME were fixed
All configuration files were moved to ~/.config/mate
An undo/redo feature was added in Caja
Libmate’s mate-open command is now faster to open applications.
Mate settings daemon now supports the PulseAudio and GStreamer backends
New applications: mozo (alacarte fork), python-caja, caja-gksu, caja-image-converter
Artwork:
Mate themes were renamed to avoid conflicts with GNOME
A new MATE wallpaper was added
MATE now features its own icon
Install MATE desktop environment in ubuntu 12.04(precise)
Open the terminal and run the following commands
sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/ubuntu precise main"
sudo apt-get install mate-archive-keyring
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mate-core
sudo apt-get install mate-desktop-environment
Install MATE desktop environment in ubuntu 11.10(Oneiric)
Open the terminal and run the following commands
sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/ubuntu oneiric main"
sudo apt-get install mate-archive-keyring
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mate-core
sudo apt-get install mate-desktop-environment
Once you installed the MATE desktop you need to logout the existing session and you need to select MATE at logon screen
Remove MATE desktop environment in ubuntu 12.04/11.10
Open the terminal and run the following commands
sudo apt-get remove atril atril-common caja caja-common engrampa engrampa-common ffmpegthumbnailer-caja libcaja-extension libmarco libmate libmate-common libmatecanvas libmatecomponent libmatecomponentui libmateconf libmatecorba libmatedesktop libmatekbd libmatekeyring libmatemenu libmatenotify libmatepanelapplet libmatepolkit libmateui libmatevfs libmateweather libmateweather-common marco marco-common mate-applets mate-applets-common mate-backgrounds mate-conf mate-conf-common mate-control-center mate-corba mate-core mate-desktop mate-desktop-common mate-dialogs mate-icon-theme mate-keyring mate-media mate-menus mate-mime-data mate-panel mate-panel-common mate-polkit mate-power-manager mate-power-manager-common mate-screensaver mate-session-manager mate-settings-daemon mate-settings-daemon-common mate-settings-daemon-gstreamer mate-system-monitor mate-terminal mate-terminal-common mate-text-editor mate-themes mate-vfs mate-vfs-common mate-window-manager python-mate
sudo apt-get remove libmatesensorsappletplugin mate-calc mate-desktop-environment mate-netspeed mate-sensors-applet mate-system-tools mate-utils mozo python-mate-menu system-tools-backends
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Doesn’t work for me. It shows an error on the first input line itself.
:~$ sudo add-apt-repository “deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/ubuntu precise main”
Error: need a repository as argument
Any solution or work around?
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dawidg Reply:
May 9th, 2012 at 7:49 am
echo deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/ubuntu precise main | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
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Netra Reply:
May 15th, 2012 at 9:51 pm
replace the “ ” with ” “
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Netra Reply:
May 15th, 2012 at 9:53 pm
…What I’m trying to say is you’ll have to type the ” “. The site is weird with them and the terminal doesn’t like the copied version of it.
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Try using ” instead of “
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I tried this-still needs too much work. I think I’ll keep trying every now and then. My problem was two thing right away: Not to be able to move launchers on panel properly, keyboard commands not working, eg. ctrl+alt+delete. The good: very responsive, equal or better than gnome-no effects. Please keep working on this.
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Actually with this you will have to do the “sudo apt-get update” before keyring otherwise it can’t nab it. At least that is the case with 12.04. It will complain just say yes then install keyring.
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After adding the repo, to install (including all dependencies):
$ sudo apt-get install mate-desktop-environment
To uninstall (including all dependencies):
$ sudo apt-get autoremove mate-desktop-environment
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Hello,
it lacks a line:
sudo add-apt-repository “deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/ubuntu precise main”
this one —> sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mate-archive-keyring
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mate-core
sudo apt-get install mate-desktop-environment
Goodbye…
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Boaslad Reply:
July 11th, 2012 at 4:34 am
Thanks Escienca. I was going to post the same thing. Without the additional “Update” it won’t see the keyring at all.
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From ny experiense it’s too much better to install MATE on Xubuntu 12.04 instead of Ubuntu itself. Xubuntu doesn’t make any compability problems.
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