Mate 16.04 not kicking in after install on ubuntu 16.04

[Liam Proven]

On 11 September 2016 at 21:26, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 told us) were out of date.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.


Whereas this is true, even that is unnecessary.

If the OP wants Maté, then they should install the Maté remix.

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