Mate 16.04 not kicking in after install on ubuntu 16.04

[Johan Scheepers]

On 12/09/2016 11:23, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 11:11:26 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote:
>> What would you suggest to do if you want ubuntu-gnome and mate on top
>> of it to have a choice when logging in. I have no problem to
>> re-install. Pensioner - lots of  time and data on fast-dsl.
> Follow this advice from Colin:
>> 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.
> And since the default DE is Unity, also install the GNOME meta-package.
Sorry, quite right, that the one "unity" that I installed. Not gnome.
>
> Or install another flavour
>
> http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu-flavours
>
> https://ubuntugnome.org/
> https://ubuntu-mate.org/
>
> and after that install the missing meta-package.
>
> As already pointed you, you could use the package search
>
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=mate&searchon=names&suite=xenial&section=all
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=xenial&section=all&arch=any&keywords=ubuntu-mate&searchon=names
>
> Perhaps you want to install mate-desktop-environment instead of
> mate-desktop.
>
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/mate-desktop-environment
>
> One of it's dependencies is mate-desktop-environment-core which depends
> on mate-desktop, IOW this package installs more related packages, then
> just installing what Colin recommended.
>
> I guess this is the package you want:
>
> "Ubuntu MATE - full desktop" -
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/ubuntu-mate-desktop
>
> You should take a look what those packages install and what you need.
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
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