Re: Installing Mate

[Gary Dale <garydale@rogers.com>]

On 11/07/13 06:17 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:
> Dear List -
>
> With the new Gnome desktop, I am up against a brick wall. For some
> reason I cannot get apt-get to work. I have also tried the irc channel,
> with no results.
>
> I have read the Wiki, followed it with no luck.
>
> This is the output from apt-get:
>
> root@meow:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# dpkg --configure -a
> root@meow:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# apt-get update && apt-get
> autoclean && apt-get -f dist-upgrade && apt-get autoremove
> E: Type 'apt-get' is not known on line 1 in source list
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mate.list
> E: The list of sources could not be read.
>
> TIA
>
> Ethan

I don't know what you have in mate.list so I can't see why it is 
breaking. I note that http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download suggests 
adding a repository line to sources.list that depends on the version of 
Debian you are running.

Also, I don't see you actually installing Mate. Again, the wiki article 
gives you the exact sequence of commands.

Here's the Debian section of the Wiki. Read the comments. You just need 
to do the apt-get update after adding a Mate repository then do a single 
apt-get install <something>, although adding the keyring will prevent 
security messages:

Debian Wheezy

Add one of the following repositories to your /etc/apt/sources.list:

# main repository
deb http://repo.mate-desktop.org/debian wheezy main

# mirrors
deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/debian wheezy main
deb http://mirror1.mate-desktop.org/debian wheezy main

Debian Jessie

Add one of the following repositories to your /etc/apt/sources.list:

# main repository
deb http://repo.mate-desktop.org/debian jessie main

# mirrors
deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/debian jessie main
deb http://mirror1.mate-desktop.org/debian jessie main

Install MATE

To install MATE:

apt-get update
apt-get install mate-archive-keyring
apt-get update
# Now to install MATE choose 1 of the 3 apt-get lines below.
# this installs the base packages
apt-get install mate-core
# or this to install mate-core and more extras
apt-get install mate-desktop-environment
#or this to install mate-core + mate-desktop-environment and even more 
extras.
apt-get install mate-desktop-environment-extra