Written on May 15, 2012 at 12:07 pm by

Install MATE on Ubuntu / Fedora

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MATE is Gnome fork.
It gives you same experience of gnome2. Many gnome2 users have shifted to Xfce to avoid gnome3. MATE can give you same old experience.

Installation of MATE is simple as packages are available for many distros. Installation instructions are available on site.
Fedora
Ubuntu
Debian
Linux Mint
Salix OS/Slackware
Archlinux

Installation
Fedora 17 

yum install https://dl.dropbox.com/u/49862637/Mate-desktop/fedora_17/mate-desktop-fedora-updates/noarch/mate-desktop-release-17-2.fc17.noarch.rpm
yum groupinstall MATE-Desktop -y


Fedora 16

yum install http://dl.dropbox.com/u/49862637/Mate-desktop/mate-desktop-fedora/releases/16/noarch/mate-desktop-release-16-5.fc16.noarch.rpm -y
yum groupinstall MATE-Desktop -y

Ubuntu 12.04

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

Once successfully installed you can login to MATE desktop environment.

Uninstall
Fedora

yum groupremove MATE-Desktop

Ubuntu

apt-get remove mate-desktop-environment
apt-get remove mate-core
apt-get remove mate-archive-keyring
apt-get autoremove


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