Revision of Installing Mate from Fri, 10/10/2014 - 17:55

What is MATE?

MATE is a desktop environment forked from GNOME 2. It is under active development and is a viable alternative to GNOME 2, which is no longer supported.

Installation

Trisquel 6.0

Trisquel 6.0 is based on Ubuntu "Precise" LTS. As such, we can use its packages.

To install MATE on Trisquel 6, open the terminal and type the following to add the MATE PPA to your system:

$ sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/ubuntu precise main"

$ sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://repo.mate-desktop.org/ubuntu precise main"

$ sudo apt-get update

Next, you'll need to install the MATE keyring and run an apt-get update.

$ sudo apt-get install mate-archive-keyring

$ sudo apt-get update

Now its time to install MATE.

$ sudo apt-get install mate-core mate-desktop-environment

To install mate-core + mate-desktop-environment and even more extras:

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

Congratulations! MATE has now been installed on your copy of Trisquel. To use it, simply choose the MATE option in the dropdown menu at the login screen.

Trisquel 5.5

Trisquel 5.5 is based on Ubuntu "Oneiric". As such, we can use its packages.

To install MATE on Trisquel 5.5, open up the terminal and type the following to add the MATE PPA to your system:

$ sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/ubuntu oneiric main"

$ sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://repo.mate-desktop.org/ubuntu oneiric main"

$ sudo apt-get update

Next you'll need to install the mate keyring and run an apt-get update.

$ sudo apt-get install mate-archive-keyring

$ sudo apt-get update

Now, it's time to install MATE.

$ sudo apt-get install mate-core mate-desktop-environment

Congratulations! MATE has now been installed on your copy of Trisquel. To use it, simply choose the MATE option in the dropdown menu at the login screen.