Re: MATE Desktop 1.8 from wheezy-backports

[Pol Hallen <deben@fuckaround.org>]

> What is the recommended way for switching to wheezy-backports and MATE
> 1.8? This is what I'm thinking:

using:

# wheezy stable
deb http://ip/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb http://ip/debian-security stable/updates main contrib non-free

apt-get update
apt-cache search ^mate

you can use mate 1.6

following what you wrote you can use mate1.8 and upgrade it from main 
debian repository :-)

>     deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-backports main
> 2. apt-get update
>
> 3. apt-get -t wheezy-backports install mate-desktop-environment-extras
>
> 4. Remove repo.mate-desktop.org from sources.list
>
> Is this OK?

yep

Pol