-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - From the Ubuntu login screen, the desktop selector is the circle in the top-right corner of the login dialogue box. Click on the circle, then select your preferred desktop environment. Some desktops put a logo in there (the Ubuntu logo for Unity, the bigfoot logo for Gnome), but the MATE desktop just has a blank circle. - --Bob. On 14/01/15 08:22 PM, Mr Chris Aitken wrote:
Will there be any possibility of choosing the old GNOME interface, so I don't end up with Unity? I use the MATE interface, a Gnome2 fork. You can install it from Ubuntu 14.04LTS "Trusty Tahr" repositories now: http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/mate-desktop Install it from
On 15-01-03 03:44 PM, Bob Jonkman wrote: On 03/01/15 03:04 PM, Chris Aitken wrote: the commandline with 'apt-get install mate-desktop'
OK, I got a tech to install 14.04. So, that's done. Now I want to install mate-desktop. I tried your command, and got ...
chris@Chris-Pc:~$ sudo apt-get install mate-desktop [sudo] password for chris: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done mate-desktop is already the newest version. The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: linux-headers-3.13.0-32 linux-headers-3.13.0-32-generic linux-image-3.13.0-32-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-32-generic Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded. chris@Chris-Pc:~$ sudo apt-get remove mate-desktop Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libmate-desktop-2-17 libunique-1.0-0 linux-headers-3.13.0-32 linux-headers-3.13.0-32-generic linux-image-3.13.0-32-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-32-generic mate-desktop-common Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: mate-desktop 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 10 not upgraded. After this operation, 97.3 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 225461 files and directories currently installed.) Removing mate-desktop (1.6.2-1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54ubuntu1.1) ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.10.1-0ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.1+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1) ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index... chris@Chris-Pc:~$ sudo apt-get install mate-desktop Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: linux-headers-3.13.0-32 linux-headers-3.13.0-32-generic linux-image-3.13.0-32-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-32-generic Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following NEW packages will be installed: mate-desktop 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/17.8 kB of archives. After this operation, 97.3 kB of additional disk space will be used. Selecting previously unselected package mate-desktop. (Reading database ... 225454 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../mate-desktop_1.6.2-1_i386.deb ... Unpacking mate-desktop (1.6.2-1) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54ubuntu1.1) ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.10.1-0ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.1+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1) ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index... Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ... Setting up mate-desktop (1.6.2-1) ... chris@Chris-Pc:~$
When I rebooted, there was no offer to choose mate.
Chris
I'd also install the packages 'mate-desktop-environment' and 'mate-desktop-environment-extras', but they seem to be available only in 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn": http://packages.ubuntu.com/utopic/mate-desktop-environment-extras
Instead of upgrading from 14.04LTS to 14.10 to get the '-environment-extras' you may want to add the MATE repositories instead. That'll let you install the '-environment-extras' package, and probably provides you with a more current MATE core as well. There's good instructions at http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download#ubuntu_1404_lts_trusty_thar
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On 03/01/15 03:04 PM, Chris Aitken wrote:
On 15-01-02 11:21 AM, Tim Tisdall wrote:
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Chris Aitken <chris@chrisaitken.net <mailto:chris@chrisaitken.net>> wrote:
On 15-01-02 09:39 AM, Tim Tisdall wrote:
If you don't have too much on that computer, you should probably just copy of your personal stuff and reformat it with the 14.04 version. Nuke it from orbit... it's the only way to be sure. Man, it's been so long. I don't expect you to give me a step-by-step, but are the broad strokes that I would make a CD or DVD on another PC, then boot from that to do the fresh installation? Is there a command I can run, then at boot the installation would begin? I assumed I was going to lose everything anyway - I'm good about backing up data.
Easiest way is to download the 14.04 ISO image and then use the "Startup Disk Creator" to create a bootable USB flash drive. You then boot from the USB drive and follow the instructions.
You should have everything you need on that older Ubuntu machine already, you just need to download the disk ISO. OK - I'm starting in on this. Will there be any possibility of choosing the old GNOME interface, so I don't end up with Unity?
Chris
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