PulseAudio no more required

Upgrading to mate-settings-daemon-1.1.1, we readded support to gstreamer (instead of pulseaudio) for media (volume) keys. So, now MATE dont requires PulseAudio.

Now there are two packages that provides mate-settings-daemon:

  • mate-settings-daemon-gstreamer (default): uses gstreamer to provides media keys.
  • mate-settings-daemon-pulse: uses pulseaudio to provides media keys.

Latest news

We are rebuilding all packages from scratch switching to the upstream versioning schema (YYYY.MM.DD instead of 1.0). In some days the repository will restart to have updates (and bug fixing).

During this time, you can install mate-applets on wheezy installing libgucharmap7 of squeeze:

   libgucharmap7_2.30.3-1_i386.deb
   libgucharmap7_2.30.3-1_amd64.deb

How to install MATE in Debian, Ubuntu and Linux Mint

To install experimental MATE packages, add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file.

For Debian Wheezy/Sid and Linux Mint LMDE:

deb http://tridex.net/repo/debian/ sid main

For Ubuntu Oneiric and Linux Mint Lisa:

deb http://tridex.net/repo/ubuntu/ oneiric main

Once updated apt, type in a terminal:

sudo apt-get install mate-core