Mate 16.04 not kicking in after install on ubuntu 16.04

[Johan Scheepers]

On 11/09/2016 21:26, Colin Law wrote:
> 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 told us) were out of date.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
I have tried this but  afraid on this installation it does not work
Thanks
>
> 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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