Mate 16.04 not kicking in after install on ubuntu 16.04

[Johan Scheepers]

On 12/09/2016 11:13, Colin Law wrote:
> On 12 September 2016 at 10:11, Johan Scheepers<johansche at telkomsa.net>  wrote:
>> On 12/09/2016 10:59, Colin Law wrote:
>>> On 12 September 2016 at 09:45, Johan Scheepers<johansche at telkomsa.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>> I thought that this should work.
>>>> To upgrade to the latest MATE Desktop 1.14.x in Ubuntu MATE 16.04 using
>>>> the
>>>> official Xenial MATE PPA, open a terminal and use the following commands:
>>>>
>>>> sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-mate-dev/xenial-mate
>>>> sudo apt update
>>>> sudo apt dist-upgrade
>>> I would have expected that to work, assuming that you had installed
>>> Ubuntu Mate rather than just Ubuntu.
>>>
>>> Colin
>>>
>> 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.
> On top of what?  Once again please try to make it clear exactly what
> it is you are saying.
>
> Colin
>
Sorry English not being my mother tongue makes difficult to express 
correct meanings.

So I did as suggested "Installing mate-desktop-environment" and now 
after logging out I was given a choice.

Good day and thanks to all taking time to respond to some not so good 
explanations from me.

Johan


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