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MATE To Make It Into Debian Repositories

Posted by timothy on from the best-news-of-the-day-so-far dept.

sfcrazy writes "Fans of the MATE desktop environment, which is a fork of Gnome 2, will be happy to know that MATE is scheduled to be included in the official Debian repositories. Early 2012, it was requested that MATE be included in said repositories, and almost 2 years later, it appears we're almost there."

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  1. Current status? by RDW · · Score: 4, Informative

    The original article seems to be Slashdotted (hey, can we still do that?!), but from the MATE blog:

    http://mate-desktop.org/blog/2013-11-08-debian-mate-packaging-team/

    "The MATE Team is very happy to say hello to the new Debian MATE Packaging Team, that is working hard to get MATE included into the next release of Debian...First packages are already in the repositories and there are many others in ftp-master NEW queue."

    which links to:

    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=708385#31

    "The plan is to provide MATE inside the Debian archive before the end of the year (if the FTP master time will find enough time to review our uploads)."

    Of course if you don't mind using the upstream repository, you can install it right now:

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