Originally Posted by
deadflowr
How about the package mate-desktop?
No, not really, I've tried:
Code:
sudo apt-get install mate-desktop mate-themes mate-icon-theme mate-backgrounds mate-notification-daemon desktop-base
Seemed to go OK:
Code:
lance@lance-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install mate-desktop mate-themes mate-icon-theme mate-backgrounds mate-notification-daemon desktop-base
[sudo] password for lance:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
gtk2-engines gtk2-engines-pixbuf libmate-desktop-2-17 libmatewnck-common
libmatewnck0 libunique-1.0-0 mate-desktop-common
Suggested packages:
gnome kde-standard xfce4 wmaker
The following NEW packages will be installed:
desktop-base gtk2-engines gtk2-engines-pixbuf libmate-desktop-2-17
libmatewnck-common libmatewnck0 libunique-1.0-0 mate-backgrounds
mate-desktop mate-desktop-common mate-icon-theme mate-notification-daemon
mate-themes
0 upgraded, 13 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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After this operation, 58.1 MB of additional disk space will be used.
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y/main libunique-1.0-0 i386 1.1.6-4ubuntu2 [21.0 kB]
Get:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe mate-backgrounds all 1.6.0-1 [9,406 kB]
Get:9 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe mate-desktop-common all 1.6.2-1 [395 kB]
Get:10 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe mate-desktop i386 1.6.2-1 [17.8 kB]
Get:11 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe mate-icon-theme all 1.6.3-1 [10.7 MB]
Get:12 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe mate-notification-daemon i386 1.6.1-1 [69.7 kB]
Get:13 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe mate-themes all 1.6.2-1 [2,116 kB]
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Setting up desktop-base (7.0.3ubuntu1) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/share/images/desktop-base/joy-wallpaper_1600x1200.svg to provide /usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-background (desktop-background) in auto mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/share/images/desktop-base/joy-wallpaper_1920x1080.svg to provide /usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-background (desktop-background) in auto mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/share/images/desktop-base/joy.xml to provide /usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-background.xml (desktop-background.xml) in auto mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/share/images/desktop-base/spacefun-splash.svg to provide /usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-splash (desktop-splash) in auto mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/share/images/desktop-base/joy-grub.png to provide /usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-grub.png (desktop-grub) in auto mode
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
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Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.103ubuntu3) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-5-generic
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lance@lance-desktop:~$
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lance@lance-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
But no login option appeared in 'lightdm' so I installed gdm:
Code:
lance@lance-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install gdm
[sudo] password for lance:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
gir1.2-accountsservice-1.0 gir1.2-caribou-1.0 gir1.2-clutter-1.0
gir1.2-cogl-1.0 gir1.2-coglpango-1.0 gir1.2-gck-1 gir1.2-gcr-3
gir1.2-gdesktopenums-3.0 gir1.2-gdm-1.0 gir1.2-gkbd-3.0
gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0 gir1.2-json-1.0 gir1.2-mutter-3.0 gir1.2-nmgtk-1.0
gir1.2-polkit-1.0 gir1.2-telepathyglib-0.12 gir1.2-telepathylogger-0.2
gir1.2-upowerglib-1.0 gir1.2-xkl-1.0 gjs gnome-icon-theme-full gnome-shell
gnome-shell-common gnome-themes-standard gnome-themes-standard-data
libcaribou-common libcaribou0 libgdm1 libgjs0d libmozjs-17.0-0 libmutter0c
mutter-common xserver-xephyr
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gdm gir1.2-accountsservice-1.0 gir1.2-caribou-1.0 gir1.2-clutter-1.0
gir1.2-cogl-1.0 gir1.2-coglpango-1.0 gir1.2-gck-1 gir1.2-gcr-3
gir1.2-gdesktopenums-3.0 gir1.2-gdm-1.0 gir1.2-gkbd-3.0
gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0 gir1.2-json-1.0 gir1.2-mutter-3.0 gir1.2-nmgtk-1.0
gir1.2-polkit-1.0 gir1.2-telepathyglib-0.12 gir1.2-telepathylogger-0.2
gir1.2-upowerglib-1.0 gir1.2-xkl-1.0 gjs gnome-icon-theme-full gnome-shell
gnome-shell-common gnome-themes-standard gnome-themes-standard-data
libcaribou-common libcaribou0 libgdm1 libgjs0d libmozjs-17.0-0 libmutter0c
mutter-common xserver-xephyr
0 upgraded, 34 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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Still no login option for Mate 
And there is no dedicated mailing list for "ubuntu-mate":
http://ml.mate-desktop.org/listinfo/
