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What is MATE?

The MATE Desktop Environment is the continuation of GNOME 2. It provides an intuitive and attractive desktop environment using traditional metaphors for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.

MATE in Debian

MATE 1.8 is currently packaged for wheezy (backports), testing (jessie) and unstable. In wheezy's case, the backports repository has to be enabled as described in the official backports documentation. Do make sure you update the repository after enabling backports.

Versions

Options

There are three options to install MATE in Debian:

How to install

Description

MATE (full + extras)

mate-desktop-environment-extras package

This will install the complete MATE desktop including a few extras.

MATE (full)

mate-desktop-environment package

This will install the complete MATE desktop environment.

MATE (core only)

mate-desktop-environment-core package

This is a minimalist MATE installation
(You have to install all end-user applications later). Above packages depend on this one.

If no graphical environment was present before, you will also need to install a display manager such as GDM or LightDM.

Install MATE in an already installed system

Optional: If you want to uninstall GNOME and its dependencies first, do:

aptitude purge `dpkg --get-selections | grep gnome | cut -f 1`
aptitude -f install
aptitude purge `dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall | cut -f 1`
aptitude -f install

To install MATE, do the following:

MATE full and extras

apt-get install mate-desktop-environment-extras

MATE full

apt-get install mate-desktop-environment

MATE just core

apt-get install mate-desktop-environment-core

Configuration

Most configuration of the MATE desktop is done via its various GUI utilities. The location of these varies depending on version, but common utilities include networking, themes, sounds and much more. It is also possible to configure (read/write) settings using the command line with gconftool-2(1).

See also


CategoryDesktopEnvironment