Install MATE Desktop Environment on Fedora 17

http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download

Fedora

This is the page where you can see current progress of MATE inclusion in Fedora 18.

There are stable MATE x86_64/i386 rpms for Fedora 17, 18 and 19. To install them, follow those steps:

• Fedora 16

WIP

• Fedora 17 (1.4, 1.5.4 in updates-testing)

yum install @mate-desktop (for 1.5.4 add: --enablerepo=updates-testing)

• Fedora 18 (Now on 1.5.4 as of Beta RC1 gold)

MATE Desktop is an official Feature of Fedora 18! You can install it with the netinstall image.

http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage

• Fedora 19(rawhide) (1.5.4)

Install Fedora 18 MATE and then do the following:

yum install fedora-release-rawhide
yum update -y
reboot
yum distro-sync -y
reboot

IRCsupport in #fedora-mate on freenode and http://bugzilla.redhat.com

Maintainers: dan408 / rdieter / leigh123linux

Unofficial MATE repository by raveit65

This is the previous MATE repository by Wolfgang Ulbrich, before MATE came into Fedora official one. You can continue to use it, but you cant mix it with the official repository, due to different mate-conf scrips.

• Fedora 16

yum install https://dl.dropbox.com/u/49862637/Mate-desktop/mate-desktop-fedora-updates/16/noarch/mate-desktop-release-16-6.fc16.noarch.rpm
yum groupinstall MATE-Desktop

• Fedora 17

yum install https://dl.dropbox.com/u/49862637/Mate-desktop/fedora_17/mate-desktop-fedora-updates/noarch/mate-desktop-release-17-2.fc17.noarch.rpm
yum groupinstall MATE-Desktop

Now you can login into the Mate desktop with your preferred display manger. This method installs a basic mate-desktop and is compatible to a existing GNOME3 installation.

Maintainer: Wolfgang Ulbrich [email protected]

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方法一：

yum grouplist

yum groupinstall -y 'MATE Desktop Environment'

安装后一直无法进入MATE桌面，不知道为什么？希望，哪位大侠可以告诉我，多谢！

方法二：

yum install @mate-desktop

现象和上面方法一一样，原因未知

方法三：（成功）使用非官方repo

yum install https://dl.dropbox.com/u/49862637/Mate-desktop/fedora_17/mate-desktop-fedora-updates/noarch/mate-desktop-release-17-2.fc17.noarch.rpm
yum groupinstall MATE-Desktop

成功安装。

哈哈，终于可以使用Gnome2风格的桌面了，这里吐槽一句：Gnome3风格改得太大了，使用了一段时间发现工作效率太慢了，果断换掉，怪不得Linux之父也不喜欢。