We have a new DNS where we’ll host MATE packages for various distros. It’s hosted by schneida of tridex.net.

You can replace the MATE repository with the new DNS, or leave tridex.net without problems.

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

deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/ubuntu oneiric main

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.

We ported two new plugins to Caja:

• caja-image-converter: extension to mass resize or rotate images
• caja-gksu: privilege granting extension using gksu

Both plugins are already packaged for Debian/Ubuntu in tridex repository.

Caja 1.1.0 has nice Undo/Redo feature, taken from nautilus-elementary.

We added some new MATE websites:

• Wiki
• Forum
• Translations

The repository was upgraded with 1.1.x MATE packages. Those packages solves many bugs found in the 1.0.x packages (but some other bugs still remaining).

Debian users need to change “sid” to “wheezy” in /etc/apt/sources.list (see mate.karapetsas.com).

We set up the new MATE website:

www.mate-desktop.org

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

The MATE debian/ubuntu repository is now signed. You can avoid the GPG warning during apt update, installing the mate-archive-keyring package.

sudo apt-get install mate-archive-keyring

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