Install

For every issue about MATE installation, you can ask in installation section in our forum or on IRC #mate channel on FreeNode.

There are some Linux distributions that include MATE in the official repositories:

• Fedora
• Linux Mint
• Sabayon
• Salix

To install MATE in these distributions, you should use their package manager.

This is the bug where we asked for official inclusion in Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=658783

Add one of the following repositories to your /etc/apt/sources.list:

# main repository
deb http://repo.mate-desktop.org/debian wheezy main
 
# mirrors
deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/debian wheezy main
deb http://mirror1.mate-desktop.org/debian wheezy main

Add one of the following repositories to your /etc/apt/sources.list:

# main repository
deb http://repo.mate-desktop.org/debian jessie main
 
# mirrors
deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/debian jessie main
deb http://mirror1.mate-desktop.org/debian jessie main

To install MATE:

apt-get update
apt-get install mate-archive-keyring
apt-get update
# Now to install MATE choose 1 of the 3 apt-get lines below.
# this installs the base packages
apt-get install mate-core
# or this to install mate-core and more extras
apt-get install mate-desktop-environment
#or this to install mate-core + mate-desktop-environment and even more extras.
apt-get install mate-desktop-environment-extra

• Replace Unity by MATE

Add ONE of the following repos to /etc/apt/sources.list via the following command:

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 add-apt-repository "deb http://mirror1.mate-desktop.org/ubuntu precise main"

or using a text editor of your choice add the ONE following mirrors to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/ubuntu precise main

deb http://repo.mate-desktop.org/ubuntu precise main

deb http://mirror1.mate-desktop.org/ubuntu precise main

Add ONE of the following repos to /etc/apt/sources.list via the following command:

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

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

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://mirror1.mate-desktop.org/ubuntu quantal main"

or using a text editor of your choice add the ONE following mirrors to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/ubuntu quantal main

deb http://repo.mate-desktop.org/ubuntu quantal main

deb http://mirror1.mate-desktop.org/ubuntu quantal main

Add ONE of the following repos to /etc/apt/sources.list via the following command:

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

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

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://mirror1.mate-desktop.org/ubuntu raring main"

or using a text editor of your choice add the ONE following mirrors to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/ubuntu raring main

deb http://repo.mate-desktop.org/ubuntu raring main

deb http://mirror1.mate-desktop.org/ubuntu raring main

Then run the following command to update your repositories and install MATE:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mate-archive-keyring
sudo apt-get update
# this install base packages
sudo apt-get install mate-core
# this install more packages
sudo apt-get install mate-desktop-environment

• Linux Mint Lisa has MATE 1.0.
• Linux Mint Maya has MATE 1.2.
• Linux Mint Nadia has MATE 1.4.
• Linux Mint LMDE has MATE 1.4.

For Mint version without Mate, you have to install the mate-desktop-environment and mate-core packages.

# this install the base packages
apt-get install mate-core
# this install more extras
apt-get install mate-desktop-environment

If you want to try the latest MATE packages on LinuxMint, you can use the MATE repository for Ubuntu (or the MATE repository for Debian if you use LMDE). Once set up the repository, you need to edit the /etc/apt/preferences file as follow:

NOTE: The below assume the main repo is used. If you are using one of the mirrors listed above make sure to adjust accordingly

Package: *
Pin: release o=linuxmint
Pin-Priority: 700
 
Package: *
Pin: origin packages.linuxmint.com
Pin-Priority: 700
 
Package: *
Pin: release o=Ubuntu
Pin-Priority: 500
 
Package: *
Pin: origin repo.mate-desktop.org
Pin-Priority: 700

Salix 13.37 users only need to run:

slapt-get --install-set mate

There are two options in which you can install MATE on Slackware:

• MATE SlackBuilds (MSB) Project
• Salix Repository

Please visit the project page at http://mateslackbuilds.github.com/ for more information about this project.

Binary packages for Slackware 14.0 (i486/x86_64) are located in

• http://www.slackware.org.uk/msb/ (primary mirror)
• http://repo.mate-desktop.org/slackware/ (secondary mirror)
• http://repo.ukdw.ac.id/mate/ (backup mirror)

People using Slackware-Current are advised to build the sources from http://github.com/mateslackbuilds/msb and read CURRENT.TXT prior building.

Slackware users can install Mate using the packages in the Salix repositories.

Slackware 14.0 users can manually grab the packages (MATE 1.4) from the following locations:

i486 mirrors

• ftp://ftp.slackware.org.uk/salix/i486/14.0/salix/mate
• http://salix.enialis.net/i486/14.0/salix/mate/
• http://download.salixos.org/i486/14.0/salix/mate/
• http://mirrors.nix.org.ua/linux/salixos/i486/14.0/salix/mate

x86_64 mirrors

• ftp://ftp.slackware.org.uk/salix/x86_64/14.0/salix/mate
• http://salix.enialis.net/x86_64/14.0/salix/mate/
• http://download.salixos.org/x86_64/14.0/salix/mate/
• http://mirrors.nix.org.ua/linux/salixos/x86_64/14.0/salix/mate

Slackware users using Salix repository should also install the following packages that are needed and which are not included in a full Slackware installation:

cairomm glibmm gtkmm libcanberra libgtop libsigc++ libsoup libunique pangomm upower

All of these packages are also available from the Salix repositories.

This is the page where you can see current progress of MATE inclusion in Fedora 18.

There are stable MATE x86_64/i386 rpms for Fedora 17, 18 and 19. To install them, follow those steps:

• Fedora 16 (1.5.5)

WIP - Update - 12/24/2012 - Coming shortly to F16.

• Fedora 17 (1.5.5)
• Before reporting bugs please make sure have the latest packages by running the command below.

su -c 'yum distro-sync @mate-desktop --enablerepo=updates-testing'

• Fedora 18 (Now on 1.5.5)

MATE Desktop is an official Feature of Fedora 18! You can install MATE with the netinstall image. Please note the DVD will NOT install MATE. A live cd/spin is being worked on.

http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage

• Fedora 19(rawhide) (1.5.5)

Install Fedora 18 MATE and then do the following:

yum install fedora-release-rawhide
yum update -y
reboot
yum distro-sync -y
reboot

IRC support in #fedora-mate on freenode and http://bugzilla.redhat.com

Maintainers: dan408 / rdieter

This is the previous MATE repository by Wolfgang Ulbrich, before MATE came into Fedora official one. You can continue to use it, but you cant mix it with the official repository, due to different mate-conf scripts. This repo use stable Mate-1.4.x until Mate-1.6 is released.

• Fedora 17 with MATE-1.4.0

yum install https://dl.dropbox.com/u/49862637/Mate-desktop/fedora_17/mate-desktop-fedora-updates/noarch/mate-desktop-release-17-4.fc17.noarch.rpm
yum groupinstall MATE-Desktop

Now you can login into the Mate desktop with your preferred display manger. This method installs a basic mate-desktop and is compatible to an existing GNOME3 installation.

The repo won't cause any yum conflicts with mate packages from fedora because i added a epoch tag in version number. This means the packages have a higher priority than fedora packages.

• Fedora 18

Additional Mate repo which includes community packages and packages which aren't available in fedora repos. A full package list you will find here http://forums.mate-desktop.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1478

yum install https://dl.dropbox.com/u/105479527/Mate-Desktop/fedora-release-extra-18/mate-desktop-fedora/noarch/mate-desktop-extra-release-18-1.fc18.noarch.rpm

You can install the packages via yum. I also add a group install information which installs all packages except mate-mplayer (rpmfusion needed)

yum groupinstall mate-desktop-extra

• Fedora 19

Additional Mate repo which includes community packages and packages which aren't available in fedora repos. A full package list you will find here http://forums.mate-desktop.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1831&sid=a19b1fcd9e5d8c074d4041c508404ca0

yum install https://dl.dropbox.com/u/105479527/Mate-Desktop/fedora-release-extra-19/mate-desktop-fedora/noarch/mate-desktop-extra-release-19-1.fc19.noarch.rpm

You can install the packages via yum. I also add a group install information which installs all packages except mate-mplayer (rpmfusion needed)

yum groupinstall mate-desktop-extra

Maintainer: Wolfgang Ulbrich raveit65@fedoraproject.org

Mate is availabe from the mate overlay maintained by gentoo/sabayon developers. The overlay is in laymen so instalation is a breeze.

layman -a mate
emerge -ay mate

Mate is ~arch keyworded so if you run a stable system make sure to add the neccesary entries to package.keywords.

If you also have gnome installed you will run into a blocker between zenity and mate-dialogs. The is due to compat use flag on both and removing it from either one will sort it out.

flaggie mate-extra/mate-dialogs -compat

See the Archlinux Custom Repo page.

openSUSE users can install the MATE Desktop through YaST2 META Installer, we strongly suggest this method. Please visit the MATE Desktop Portal page in openSUSE wiki for further information.

• openSUSE MATE Desktop Portal

Besides installation instructions the MATE Desktop Portal on openSUSE wiki also provides other useful information!

MATE is available in the Cygwin Ports repository.

You can download MATE source code tarballs on pub.mate-desktop.org: http://pub.mate-desktop.org/releases/

Get from https://github.com/mate-desktop/. See Building for more information.