Mate 16.04 not kicking in after install on ubuntu 16.04

[Tony Arnold]

Colin,

On Mon, 2016-09-12 at 10:04 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> On 12 September 2016 at 10:00, Johan Scheepers <johansche at telkomsa.ne
> t> wrote:
> > 
> > On 11/09/2016 21:26, Colin Law wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On 11 September 2016 at 17:36, Johan Scheepers <johansche at telkoms
> > > a.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 told us) were out of date.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

Curiously, I tried this yesterday! Installing mate-desktop-environment
seems to be a better choice. It has far more dependencies so you get
the full MATE experience. You also get the choice of desktop from the
login screen.

Regards,
Tony.

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