Mate 16.04 not kicking in after install on ubuntu 16.04

[Johan Scheepers]

On 12/09/2016 11:25, Tony Arnold wrote:
> 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 told us) were out of date.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.
>
Installing mate-desktop-environment
seems to be a better choice

SURE it was and after logging out ..there was the choice..Thanks a lot . 
It was a learning experience for me. Johan