Install Procedure for MATE Desktop Environment¶

Requirements¶

To install apache you will need the following:

• a installed and supported operating system (e.g. CentOS 7.x)
• root-access
• a fast internet connection

Preliminary Note¶

MATE is a lightweight alternative to GNOME-Desktop. It is assumed that there is no other Desktop-Environment installed.

Install¶

yum groupinstall "Development Tools" 
yum groupinstall "X Window system" 
yum groupinstall "MATE Desktop" 
reboot

Tell your system to start the Graphical Interface

systemctl isolate graphical.target

To have MATE boot up as the default desktop enviroment, enter the following command (the last two lines will spit out into the terminal when you run the first line).

systemctl set-default graphical.target
rm '/etc/systemd/system/default.target'
ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/graphical.target' '/etc/systemd/system/default.target'

You will most likely want the Gnome Disk Utility as it the easiest way to interface with your disks. Once installed it can be found in: Applications -> Accessories -> Disks

yum install gnome-disk-utility