How To Install mate-desktop on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mate-desktop
on CentOS 7.
What is mate-desktop
The mate-desktop package contains an internal library (libmatedesktop) used to implement some portions of the MATE desktop, and also some data files and other shared components of the MATE user environment.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install mate-desktop
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mate-desktop.
Install mate-desktop on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install mate-desktop
using yum
by running the following command:
Install mate-desktop on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install mate-desktop
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall mate-desktop on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the mate-desktop
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mate-desktop
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.