Mate 16.04 not kicking in after install on ubuntu 16.04

[Colin Law]

On 12 September 2016 at 10:00, Johan Scheepers <johansche at telkomsa.net> wrote:
> 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 told us) were out of date.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

If you install standard Ubuntu then install mate-desktop then you
should have the option of either window manager at boot time.  You say
'it does not work'. That is not a useful thing to say, unless you tell
us exactly what does not work.

Colin