Fedora/MATE desktop

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Mate.pngMATE Desktop

  • updated Jan 30 2013

Gnome3 with mate running in VB.png

(mate 1.5.5 running in VirtualBox on Fedora 18 GNOME 3 Desktop)
  • Installed in GNOME 3 root terminal with
yum groupinstall MATE-Desktop 
Click on link ^ for terminal output of update
Note use of CAPS in command
  • Fedora 18 Netinstall installs mate 1.5.5
  • MATE is only Available in Fedora netinstall - DVD does not contain mate.
Nice GNOME 2 alternate desktop
Originally developed for Linux Mint
http://linuxfreedom.com/linuxmint/stable/13/linuxmint-13-mate-dvd-64bit.iso
(#mate and #fedora-mate on freenode IRC )
  • Fedora Download:
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/18/Fedora/i386/iso/Fedora-18-i386-netinst.iso
http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/18/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-18-x86_64-netinst.iso

Mate-live-CD

  • Mate Livecd (x86_64)
  • Download
http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/9602/5369602/Fedora-19-Nightly-x86_64-Live-mate-compiz-20130512.11-1.iso 05/13/2013 (only available for a short time)
http://bitchx.ca/Image-FedoraMateCompiz.iso
Duplicate: http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Image-FedoraMateCompiz.iso Mate 1.5.5 Livecd (by dan408)
Submitted to Fedora spins sig

mate-desktop Wiki

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Fedora 20 netinstall

Download Net installer: http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/20/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-20-x86_64-netinst.iso :Select MATE

Add Sugar to MATE Desktop

yum groupinstall sugar-desktop sugar-runner
yum install sugar-runner @sugar-desktop
chose MATE or sugar on login
  • Add to Existing Desktop Environment:
root terminal
yum install @mate-desktop
yum groupinstall MATE-Desktop