Install MATE 1.10 Desktop Environment on Linux Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Linux Mint and Derivatives. The Mate Desktop is shipped by default on Fedora, Arch Linux, Linux Mint and BSD Systems.
The recently released Mate Desktop 1.10 has been released with new features and bug-fixes. Some of the prominent changes and features are:
- Every component of MATE can now be built with GTK2 and GTK3.
- GTK3 support is still considered experimental
- Arch Linux and Fedora currently offer alternative GTK3 builds.
- [GSoC 2014] Caja now has an extension manager so plugin can be enabled/disabled at run-time.
- [GSoC 2014] Atril now supports ePub.
- [GSoC 2014]
libmatemixer, an audio mixer library for MATE desktop, has been introduced.- Provides an abstract API allowing access to mixer functionality available in the PulseAudio, ALSA and OSS sound systems.
- Static code analysis has resulted in many memory leaks being plugged.
- Theme support has been expanded to GTK 3.8 to 3.16 including CSD and pop-over support.
Install Mate 1.10.0 on Ubuntu Systems
Terminal commands to install the Mate Desktop Environment on Linux Ubuntu Systems:
$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-mate-dev/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install mate-desktop-environment
If you wish to uninstall and remove the Mate Desktop Environment from Ubuntu Systems, run the following Terminal commands:
$ sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
$ sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntu-mate-dev/ppa
If the above commands doesn’t work, you can try installing Mate Desktop on Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 14.10 using the following commands:
Install Mate 1.10.0 on Ubuntu 14.10
$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-mate-dev/ppa
$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-mate-dev/utopic-mate
$ sudo apt-get update
Install Mate 1.10.0 on Ubuntu 14.04
$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-mate-dev/ppa
$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-mate-dev/trusty-mate
$ sudo apt-get update