Mate 16.04 not kicking in after install on ubuntu 16.04

[Colin Law]

On 12 September 2016 at 10:51, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 09:25:17 +0000, Tony Arnold wrote:
>>Installing mate-desktop-environment seems to be a better choice.
>
> That's what I posted before Colin posted "mate-desktop", however, as
> already pointed out, the OP likely wants neither
> "mate-desktop-environment", nor "mate-desktop", but likely the
> meta-package "ubuntu-mate-desktop".

I think you are right Ralf, and I was wrong.  I think we have all
learned something here.

Cheers

Colin