Software Installation – How to Install MATE Desktop Environment

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I have seen several youtube videos that are showing MATE (The Gnome 2.x fork) installed in 11.10. How can I install it to test it out in 11.10 and above.

If it helps the only sources I know of are:

SourceForge, GitHub, and Matsusoft

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Since there is now an official Ubuntu Mate release ("15.04 and later"), why not just switch to that:

apt-get install ubuntu-mate-desktop

should do that for you (offering another desktop alternative, just like lubuntu-desktop etc)

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MATE by default is similar to a vanilla GNOME 2.x install. This means you won't get the Mint menu, etc. unless you install those separately, most likely by adding Mint repos to your system (but note this could potentially cause problems).

General information on how to install MATE can be found here. If you want to install Mint's version of it, you could try following the steps which will add the Mint repos to your sources list here.

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Open a terminal and run:

sudo apt-get remove --purge mate-desktop

sudo apt-get autoremove

now add the MATE Official repo, press y when prompted.

sudo apt-add-repository "deb http://repo.mate-desktop.org/archive/1.8/ubuntu trusty main"

sudo apt-get update

then install it:

sudo apt-get install mate-core

sudo apt-get install mate-desktop-environment

sudo apt-get install mate-desktop-environment-extra

sudo reboot

Done.

Now you should be able to see MATE at the login screen.

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