On 15-01-18 06:42 PM, Bob Jonkman wrote:
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- 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.
No circle in top right corner. From left-to-right: A circle with a man
inside (five-pointed asterisk where one spoke is a circle), up/down
arrow logo, EN, volume icon, time, power logo (with spokes).
- --Bob.
On 14/01/15 08:22 PM, Mr Chris Aitken wrote:
On 15-01-03 03:44 PM, Bob Jonkman wrote: On 03/01/15 03:04 PM,
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
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
--Bob.
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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
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
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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