Mate 16.04 not kicking in after install on ubuntu 16.04

[Colin Law]

On 11 September 2016 at 17:36, Johan Scheepers <johansche at telkomsa.net> wrote:
> Good day,
>
> Have installed ubuntu 16.04.1 dated 07-09-2016.
>
> Afterwards installed mate according to internet from ppa and then the rest
> to instructions.

I suspect that whichever instructions you followed (which you have not
told us) were out of date.

I think all you needed to do was
sudo apt install mate-desktop

First I suggest purging the ppa you installed from and then install it as above.

Colin

>
> Now mate does not show up when password requested.
>
> Booting to ubuntu.
>
> Could not find any answer from google search.
>
> Would appreciate some help please.
>
> Thanks
>
> Johan
>
>
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