Mate Desktop Environment - GNOME2 fork

Tea2 · 2011-08-22 23:26:02

karol wrote:

I see that you have set up a repo too:

If I had more monthly transfer than I do, I'd host a mirror. This repo is downloading at dial up speeds, unfortunately, and some packages are failing to download and I'm having to keep retrying the download.

If there's anyone out there who can spare the bytes, I think we need a faster mirror. Honestly, I would host one if I could.

.:B:. · 2011-08-23 01:38:03

oskar.einstein wrote:

I don't fully understand. Which package precisely should I rebuild?

It's pretty simple: the package that owns the binary that breaks on the GnuTLS dependency .

nicedream · 2011-08-23 02:49:52

Tea2 wrote:

karol wrote:
I see that you have set up a repo too:
If I had more monthly transfer than I do, I'd host a mirror. This repo is downloading at dial up speeds, unfortunately, and some packages are failing to download and I'm having to keep retrying the download.
If there's anyone out there who can spare the bytes, I think we need a faster mirror. Honestly, I would host one if I could.

I emailed Perberos and offered to host a mirror for him.
In the meantime, if anyone has pre-built Arch packages let me know. I could throw them up on my server quickly.

Perberos · 2011-08-23 04:36:29

This image is just related to the project's web.

Redmine problem: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/59/img0914mx.jpg/

{ DRDY ERR } issue: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/8/img0915qg.jpg/

I feel lucky. Sorry about the web downtime, e2fsck take time.

Tea2 · 2011-08-23 10:09:44

nicedream wrote:

I emailed Perberos and offered to host a mirror for him.
In the meantime, if anyone has pre-built Arch packages let me know. I could throw them up on my server quickly.

Excellent! Thanks very much

totex71 · 2011-08-23 10:15:29

hey, i must say that a gnome 2 fork is just awesome! as i miss gnome 2 so much!!
I wanna ask about: is the mate desktop ready to use or still not some bug fixes before it can be used as a main desktop?
because then i will install it directly when i come home today

RetroX · 2011-08-23 14:46:56

totex71 wrote:

hey, i must say that a gnome 2 fork is just awesome! as i miss gnome 2 so much!!
I wanna ask about: is the mate desktop ready to use or still not some bug fixes before it can be used as a main desktop?
because then i will install it directly when i come home today

From the looks of it, it conflicts with packages from GNOME 3, but if you uninstall GNOME 3, it should run fine. It's essentially a rebranded GNOME 2 at this point.

totex71 · 2011-08-23 20:48:42

i had a little problem with the mirror from the website when i was trying to download it from aur. but ill just wait on xfce until i can get it installed

Crunch · 2011-08-23 21:18:37

totex71 wrote:

i had a little problem with the mirror from the website when i was trying to download it from aur. but ill just wait on xfce until i can get it installed

Just keep retrying the download, it'll work after a few tries.

Tea2 · 2011-08-24 00:02:29

Nevermind any of what I just said. I didn't check gitweb.

(it was about a menu editor)

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nicedream · 2011-08-24 12:17:00

Perberos uploaded the Mate DE packages for i686 and x86_64 to my server.
For anyone who has been having trouble downloading Mate, you can try getting it from my mirror:

http://cptl.org/mate/

Tea2 · 2011-08-24 12:31:27

nicedream wrote:

Perberos uploaded the Mate DE packages for i686 and x86_64 to my server.
For anyone who has been having trouble downloading Mate, you can try getting it from my mirror:
http://cptl.org/mate/

Thanks so much for this!

nicedream · 2011-08-24 12:35:21

Tea2 wrote:

nicedream wrote:
Perberos uploaded the Mate DE packages for i686 and x86_64 to my server.
For anyone who has been having trouble downloading Mate, you can try getting it from my mirror:
http://cptl.org/mate/
Thanks so much for this!

No problem
I'm also trying to mirror the source files, but I haven't been able to download all of them yet.

BTW - I installed the x86_64 packages last night and tried to run Mate DE. It started up, but an endless stream of file manager windows opens up. The only thing I can do is immediately log out because I can't get the windows to stop spawning. My guess is that it has something to do with the Gnome2 and Gnome3 settings I still have laying around, but if anyone knows how to fix this please let me know.

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Tea2 · 2011-08-24 13:03:04

I have begun a Wiki article on MATE. I understand it may be a little early for this, but I have a lot of faith in this project and let's face it; the Redmine site is a little too slow for reference and documentation.

Perberos · 2011-08-24 13:34:05

No problem. I am too lazy to rewrite it on github wiki.

nicedream wrote:

BTW - I installed the x86_64 packages last night and tried to run Mate DE. It started up, but an endless stream of file manager windows opens up. The only thing I can do is immediately log out because I can't get the windows to stop spawning. My guess is that it has something to do with the Gnome2 and Gnome3 settings I still have laying around, but if anyone knows how to fix this please let me know.

quick fix, run as root:

ln -s /usr/lib/libgnutls.so /usr/lib/libgnutls.so.26

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nicedream · 2011-08-24 13:35:25

Perberos wrote:

quick fix, run as root:
ln -s /usr/lib/libgnutls.so /usr/lib/libgnutls.so.26

Thanks, I will try this tonight.

karol · 2011-08-24 14:09:11

What does 'pacman -Sff' do? I can't seem to find any reference to double 'f' switch apart from https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 60#p950860

xunil9025 · 2011-08-24 17:25:12

Hi
Can I ask why is it called Mate? Why not users-desktop-environment or simple-desktop-environment etc.....?
Mate sounds like something you can drink.

After posting I googled Mate and it's indeed something you can drink see wiki.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate_%28beverage%29

Sorry my English is bad.

Last edited by xunil9025 (2011-08-24 17:31:38)

Tea2 · 2011-08-24 18:10:13

karol wrote:

What does 'pacman -Sff' do? I can't seem to find any reference to double 'f' switch apart from https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 60#p950860

-Sff ignores file conflict warnings. I'm not sure if it overwrites the offending files or just leaves them, though.

karol · 2011-08-24 18:15:42

Tea2 wrote:

karol wrote:
What does 'pacman -Sff' do? I can't seem to find any reference to double 'f' switch apart from https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 60#p950860
-Sff ignores file conflict warnings. I'm not sure if it overwrites the offending files or just leaves them, though.

Can you point me to a man page or anything that mentions -'ff' switch?

It creates pacnew files for the files in the backup array - if the 'files' metadata is present.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 26#p978726

Last edited by karol (2011-08-24 18:17:00)

totex71 · 2011-08-24 19:26:00

nicedream wrote:

Perberos uploaded the Mate DE packages for i686 and x86_64 to my server.
For anyone who has been having trouble downloading Mate, you can try getting it from my mirror:
http://cptl.org/mate/

can i add this to my pacman.conf. and if yes. how?

karol · 2011-08-24 19:27:42

totex71 wrote:

nicedream wrote:
Perberos uploaded the Mate DE packages for i686 and x86_64 to my server.
For anyone who has been having trouble downloading Mate, you can try getting it from my mirror:
http://cptl.org/mate/

can i add this to my pacman.conf. and if yes. how?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MATE

totex71 · 2011-08-24 19:30:17

karol wrote:

totex71 wrote:
nicedream wrote:
Perberos uploaded the Mate DE packages for i686 and x86_64 to my server.
For anyone who has been having trouble downloading Mate, you can try getting it from my mirror:
http://cptl.org/mate/

can i add this to my pacman.conf. and if yes. how?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MATE

thank you!!

totex71 · 2011-08-24 19:44:38

got an error :

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
mate-session-manager: /usr/share/applications/session-properties.desktop exists in filesystem
mate-session-manager: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/session-properties.png exists in filesystem
mate-session-manager: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/session-properties.png exists in filesystem
mate-session-manager: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/session-properties.png exists in filesystem
mate-session-manager: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/session-properties.png exists in filesystem
mate-session-manager: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/session-properties.png exists in filesystem
mate-session-manager: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/session-properties.svg exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

karol · 2011-08-24 19:47:41

totex71 wrote:

got an error :
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
mate-session-manager: /usr/share/applications/session-properties.desktop exists in filesystem
mate-session-manager: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/session-properties.png exists in filesystem
mate-session-manager: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/session-properties.png exists in filesystem
mate-session-manager: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/session-properties.png exists in filesystem
mate-session-manager: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/session-properties.png exists in filesystem
mate-session-manager: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/session-properties.png exists in filesystem
mate-session-manager: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/session-properties.svg exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

You may need to force the upgrade.

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