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: bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=658783

Debian Sid/Wheezy: add one of the following repositories to your /etc/apt/sources.list:

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

To install MATE:

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

This is the bug where some users asked for official inclusion in Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/876675

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

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

sudo add-apt-repository "deb repo.mate-desktop.org/ubuntu oneiric main"

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

deb packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/ubuntu oneiric main

deb repo.mate-desktop.org/ubuntu oneiric main

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

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

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

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

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

deb repo.mate-desktop.org/ubuntu quantal 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.

If you want to try the latest MATE packages on LinuxMint, you can use the MATE repository for Ubuntu (or de 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: This assumes you are using packages.mate-desktop.org. If you are using a different mirror, then use that instead.

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 packages.mate-desktop.org
Pin-Priority: 700

Salix 13.37 users only need to run:

slapt-get --install-set mate

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

Slackware 13.37 users can manually grab the packages from the following locations:

i486 mirrors

• ftp://ftp.slackware.org.uk/salix/i486/13.37/salix/mate
• salix.enialis.net/i486/13.37/salix/mate/
• download.salixos.org/i486/13.37/salix/mate/
• mirrors.nix.org.ua/linux/salixos/i486/13.37/salix/mate

x86_64 mirrors

• ftp://ftp.slackware.org.uk/salix/x86_64/13.37/salix/mate
• salix.enialis.net/x86_64/13.37/salix/mate/
• download.salixos.org/x86_64/13.37/salix/mate/
• mirrors.nix.org.ua/linux/salixos/x86_64/13.37/salix/mate

Slackware users 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

WIP

• Fedora 17 (1.4.1)

yum install @mate-desktop

• Fedora 18 (Now on 1.5 as of Beta TC8)

MATE Desktop is an official Feature of Fedora 18! You can install it with the netinstall or the DVD!

dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage
Net install recommended!

• Fedora 19(rawhide) (1.5.3)

Want to preview MATE 1.5? 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 bugzilla.redhat.com

Maintainers: dan408 / rdieter / leigh123linux

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 scrips.

• Fedora 16

yum install https://dl.dropbox.com/u/49862637/Mate-desktop/mate-desktop-fedora-updates/16/noarch/mate-desktop-release-16-6.fc16.noarch.rpm
yum groupinstall MATE-Desktop

• Fedora 17

yum install https://dl.dropbox.com/u/49862637/Mate-desktop/fedora_17/mate-desktop-fedora-updates/noarch/mate-desktop-release-17-2.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 a existing GNOME3 installation.

Maintainer: Wolfgang Ulbrich raveit65@fedoraproject.org

If you want to install MATE on Gentoo, here → https://github.com/Sabayon/mate-overlay you can find the overlays for Sabayon; they can be used on Gentoo also.

As soon as we can we'll propose the inclusion of the whole Desktop Environment in the official repos to Gentoo staff.

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!

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

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