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.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install mate-desktop using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install mate-desktop
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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install mate-desktop using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install mate-desktop
How To Uninstall mate-desktop on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the mate-desktop package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove mate-desktop
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mate-desktop on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
