**MATE** (Spanish pronunciation: [[ˈmate]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_Spanish "Help:IPA for Spanish")) is a [desktop environment](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment "Desktop environment") [forked](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_%28software%29 "Fork (software)") from the now-unmaintained code base of [GNOME](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME "GNOME") 2. The name derives from [yerba mate](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerba_mate "Yerba mate"), a species of [holly](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly "Holly") native to subtropical South America used to prepare a beverage called [mate](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate_%28beverage%29 "Mate (beverage)").

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Applications : Several GNOME applications have been forked and renamed: - **Caja** – File manager (from [Nautilus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilus_%28file_manager%29 "Nautilus (file manager)")) - **Pluma** – Text editor (from [Gedit](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedit "Gedit")) - **Eye** of **MATE** – Image viewer (from [Eye of GNOME](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_GNOME "Eye of GNOME")) - **Atril** – Document Viewer (from [Evince](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince "Evince")) - **Engrampa** – Compression tool (from [File Roller](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Roller "File Roller")) - **MATE Terminal** – Terminal emulator (from [GNOME Terminal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Terminal "GNOME Terminal")) - **Marco** – Window manager (from [Metacity](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacity "Metacity")) **Installing Mate-Desktop-Environment (Main)** **MATE has its own Ubuntu repository, available for Ubuntu. To add the repository and install MATE Desktop in Ubuntu, use the following commands:** ```

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sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) main"

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sudo apt-get update

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sudo apt-get install mate-archive-keyring

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sudo apt-get update

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sudo apt-get install mate-core

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sudo apt-get install mate-desktop-environment

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Now after all packages are unpacked.

 Reboot

**Uninstalling Mate-Desktop-Environment (Removing)**

If you want to remove MATE Desktop, you can use the following command:

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`sudo apt-get remove atril atril-common caja caja-common engrampa engrampa-common ffmpegthumbnailer-caja libcaja-extension libmarco libmate libmate-common libmatecanvas libmatecomponent libmatecomponentui libmateconf libmatecorba libmatedesktop libmatekbd libmatekeyring libmatemenu libmatenotify libmatepanelapplet libmatepolkit libmateui libmatevfs libmateweather libmateweather-common marco marco-common mate-applets mate-applets-common mate-backgrounds mate-conf mate-conf-common mate-control-center mate-corba mate-core mate-desktop mate-desktop-common mate-dialogs mate-icon-theme mate-keyring mate-media mate-menus mate-mime-data mate-panel mate-panel-common mate-polkit mate-power-manager mate-power-manager-common mate-screensaver mate-session-manager mate-settings-daemon mate-settings-daemon-common mate-settings-daemon-gstreamer mate-system-monitor mate-terminal mate-terminal-common mate-text-editor mate-themes mate-vfs mate-vfs-common mate-window-manager python-mate`
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f you’ve installed the extra MATE packages (mate-desktop-environment), use the following command to remove them:

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sudo apt-get remove libmatesensorsappletplugin mate-calc mate-desktop-environment mate-netspeed mate-sensors-applet mate-system-tools mate-utils mozo python-mate-menu system-tools-backends
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