Would like to have Mate

[Randymanme]

Hello,


I'm presently at http://www.noobslab.com/2011/11/inst...esktop-on.html


The problem I'm having is highlighted with larger font below:


randyman@randyman-EL1358G:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
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The following extra packages will be installed:
python-mate-desktop
The following NEW packages will be installed:
python-mate-desktop
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 26 not upgraded.
150 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/83.9 kB of archives.
After this operation, 422 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 268222 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking python-mate-desktop (from .../python-mate-desktop_1.0.2-1_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/python-mate-desktop_1.0.2-1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0/evolution/ecal.la', which is also in package python-evolution 2.32.0-0ubuntu6
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/python-mate-desktop_1.0.2-1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
randyman@randyman-EL1358G:~$


So here's my question: what command may I use to force dpkg to overwrite '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0/evolution/ecal.la'?


I don't use Evolution anyway (never have).


Any help or alternative suggestions would be much appreciated. Thank you.

[satanselbow]

Have you looked at the solution provided in the comment thread you are following?

[Myrddin Emrys]

There's a much cleaner and easier way to install MATE than that! See: http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download#ubuntu

[Randymanme]

Have you looked at the solution provided in the comment thread you are following?

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Code:
cd /fridge/beer | drink && fallover
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I've no idea what that means except, maybe, "go get some beer."

I did attempt to follow a solution proffered in the comments section at http://www.noobslab.com/2011/11/inst...esktop-on.html (see screenshot). It was my downloading and attempting to install
ftp://tridex.net/repo/ubuntu/pool/ma...-mate-desktop/ that got me here.

Moving on. I do, in fact, have Mate installed and am posting with it now. But I have to admit that I'm a little hazy on precisedly how that occurred
cd /fridge/beer | drink && falloverMy first idea was to remove Evolution (since I don't use it anyway), but that would have entailed the accompanying removal of a lot of other packages that I needed to keep in order to retain a functioning os. Next, I thought to just give up getting Mate on Ubuntu and just "sudo apt-get remove

[Randymanme]

Have you looked at the solution provided in the comment thread you are following?

__________________
Code:
cd /fridge/beer | drink && fallover
I've no idea what that means except, maybe, "go get some beer."

I did attempt to follow a solution proffered in the comments section at http://www.noobslab.com/2011/11/inst...esktop-on.html (see screenshot). It was my downloading and attempting to install
ftp://tridex.net/repo/ubuntu/pool/ma...-mate-desktop/ that got me here.

Moving on. I do, in fact, have Mate installed and am posting with it now. But I have to admit that I'm a little hazy on precisedly how that occurred
cd /fridge/beer | drink && falloverMy first idea was to remove Evolution (since I don't use it anyway), but that would have entailed the accompanying removal of a lot of other packages that I needed to keep in order to retain a functioning os. Next, I thought to just give up getting Mate on Ubuntu and just "sudo apt-get remove

[Randymanme]

Next, I thought to just give up getting Mate on Ubuntu and just "sudo apt-get remove python-mate-desktop" since it seemed to me to be only partially installed, but the terminal wanted to install it.

So next, I decided to go to synaptic package manager and untick the python-mate-desktop box to either unmark or remove, whichever the case might have been. But I couldn't get anything done there because of broken packages (i.e., unmet dependencies relating to python-mate-desktop). Whenever I clicked on "Fix Broken Packages" under the Edit tab, Synaptic would that the unmet dependencies were resolved, but when I clicked on "Apply," I'd be told to Fix Broken Packages first.

So then I decided to go repositories and uncheck the Linux Mint repositories, reload, and hope that all the Mate packages would have disappeared. So I did that.

After I had another beer, I was distracted and went to close synaptic but was met with the message box wanting to know if I really wanted to quit and discard unapplied changes? Well, no (although I didn't quite recall exactly what those changes were). So I clicked on "Apply," and viola! a lot of Mate packages were being installed!

I logged out and logged back in to Mate.

To tell you the truth, finally getting Mate installed was rather anti-climactic. However, there is one good thing: I can drag and drop from the home folder to the terminal without the terminal disappearing when I click on the package I want to drag and drop. Can't do that with Unity. Nor Gnome Shell.

Thank you very much for all the responses.