<SOLVED> Installing Mate from Cinnamon

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<SOLVED> Installing Mate from Cinnamon

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Hi folks,

I installed Mint 13 via the Cinnamon meida, and now I´d like to try Mate alongside it. How do I do it?

I´ve already tried installing the mint-meta-mate package

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sudo apt-get install mint-meta-mate
but it does not give the correct configurations for the Mate desktop, it gives me a very vanilla Mate; for instance it lacks the mintmenu. Any idea on how to get the configs?
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Re: Installing Mate from Cinnamon

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araujoms wrote:Hi folks,

I installed Mint 13 via the Cinnamon meida, and now I´d like to try Mate alongside it. How do I do it?

I´ve already tried installing the mint-meta-mate package

Code: Select all

sudo apt-get install mint-meta-mate
but it does not give the correct configurations for the Mate desktop, it gives me a very vanilla Mate; for instance it lacks the mintmenu. Any idea on how to get the configs?
you need to install mate-desktop

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sudo apt-get install mate-desktop
works fine here.
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Re: Installing Mate from Cinnamon

Post by araujoms »

Thank you for the reply!

It came a little late for me to test, I had just downloaded the Mate image and installed it afresh. But I believe your answer shall be useful to other people.
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