How to Install MATE Desktop Environment 1.4.0 On Ubuntu 12.04/Linux Mint 13/Debian
MATE Desktop Environment 1.4.0 has been released and announced by Mate Desktop Developer team. MATE Desktop Environment is a traditional looking desktop environment derived from Gnome 2, specially designed for Gnome 2 Fans who did not want to switch to Gnome 3 for several reason. On this release, MATE Desktop Environment 1.4.0 fixes numerous bugs, new themes, improvements and bug fixes..
Here’s some changes of MATE Desktop Environment 1.4.0 :
- New themes added to mate-notification-daemon
- Mate-icon-theme-faenza now available
- Mate-character-map now available
- Mate-screensaver now supports GDM user switching
- Mate-keyring and libmatekeyring backends updated and now integrate properly
- Caja-dropbox package now available
- File sharing now available via bluetooth
- Added option to use fast alt-tabbing when compositing is enabled in marco
- Removed indicator-applet-session
- Removed nyancat from the mate-desktop about dialog
- Forked libwnck (now libmatewnck)
Caja improvements:
- Added a button to get the difference between files in the file conflict dialog
- Bookmarks can now be opened in the places side pane via the enter and space keys
- Restored toggle button for text based location bar
For further information about this release, HERE
Install MATE Desktop Environment 1.4 On Ubuntu 12.04/Linux Mint 13/Debian
Ubuntu 12.04 – To install MATE Desktop Environment 1.4 on your Ubuntu 12.04, add a PPA and install it with following commands:
sudo 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-desktop-environment
Linux Mint 13 – use the repository for Ubuntu, then edit file /etc/apt/preferences with followoing commads:
sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/ubuntu precise main" ----------------------------------------- sudo cat >> /etc/apt/preferences <<-EOF Package: * Pin: origin packages.mate-desktop.org Pin-Priority: 700 EOF ----------------------------------------- sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mate-archive-keyring sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mate-desktop-environment
Debian wheezy – Edit file /etc/apt/source.list then add repo Mate Desktop Environment
sudo cat >> /etc/apt/source.list <<-EOF deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/debian wheezy main EOF ----------------------------------------- sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mate-archive-keyring sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mate-desktop-environment -----------------------------------------
Done!!..