Binary packages for Slackware Linux based on MATE SlackBuilds ============================================================= Please visit http://mateslackbuilds.github.com for more information and a link to the main git repo where the SlackBuild scripts are located. These packages are provided for your convenience. The best way to run MATE on Slackware is to clone the git repo and build the packages yourself, tailored for your system. How to install: 1. All of the packages in /base are required. Just use "lftp -c 'open ; mirror " to grab them and use installpkg to install them. Example : "lftp -c 'open http://slackware.org.uk/msb/14.0/1.6/ ; mirror x86_64'" 2. Optionally, install any of the extra packages in the /extra directory. Some of these packages have dependencies which will also be found in the /extra directory. A list of dependencies are listed in DEPS.TXT. 3. Once the packages are installed, you can use 'xwmconfig' to select the mate session. Or, if you use KDM, just log out and select MATE from the KDM session dialog. 4. Check the 'System > Preferences > Startup Applications' for duplicate or conflicting entries. For example, there will be an entry for polkit-mate and polkit-gnome, the result of which might be duplicate attempts at polkit actions when inserting a usb stick, for example. You may want to disable polkit-gnome and see if polkit-mate works by itself. Also, if you use mate-power-manager from /extra then you might want to disable the Xfce power manager if it is listed. Same with mate-keyring from /extra - if you installed that, you might want to disable the gnome-keyring entries. 5. Please check out KNOWN_ISSUES.TXT for some potential gotchas. 6. Enjoy and let us know of any issues. Email is: mateslackbuilds@gmail.com. Thanks!