Cannot start MATE Desktop [OBSOLETE]

Cannot start MATE Desktop [OBSOLETE]

Postby Cariboo on Sun May 20, 2012 9:29 am

Hi,
Just today I installed "MATE 64-bit: 776a2e820362833cdbb056c035a5f2c1" on an USB stick.It works great but I can not get to the MATE Desktop Environment.
With Synaptic P.M. I found out that the package "mint-meta-mate" - (Set of packages required to run MATE) is missing. I tried to get this package installed via Synaptic P.M. and got the message that it failed to fetch packages.
I include some screenshots to show the procedure.
What did I do wrong?
Is my sources.list OK?
Do I have to allow more of the "Other Software" Sources?

EDIT: May 24th Installation of Final Release---issue solved.
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Re: Cannot start MATE Desktop

Postby xpander on Sun May 20, 2012 10:27 am

judging from ur screenshot about software sources, it seems that u have repos listed there as duplicate.
sources.list however seems to be fine.
something is messed up there.
what do u have in /etc/apt/sources.list.d folder?
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Re: Cannot start MATE Desktop

Postby Cariboo on Sun May 20, 2012 7:54 pm

xpander wrote:what do u have in /etc/apt/sources.list.d folder?


etc/apt/sources.list.d folder contains two documents and no hidden files:

1) local -repository.list with one commented entry:
"# deb file:///usr/share/local-repository binary/"

2) local -repository.list.save with the same entry as above:
"# deb file:///usr/share/local-repository binary/"
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Re: Cannot start MATE Desktop

Postby xpander on Sun May 20, 2012 11:23 pm

its all fine there.
but why do u have ubuntu 12.04 'precise pangolin', recommendedd updates, important security updates, canonical partners and medibuntu.org repos as duplicate in ur screenshot of the software sources.
try to disable duplicates there and run the sudo apt-get update and try again.
that might resolve..
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Re: Cannot start MATE Desktop

Postby Cariboo on Mon May 21, 2012 5:02 am

That's the sources.list which came with the image download. I didn't add anything.
In case you run Linux Mint 13, can you post yours :?:
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