How to Install and Uninstall mate-desktop Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: February 24,2025

1. Install "mate-desktop" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install mate-desktop on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                mate-desktop
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "mate-desktop" package

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall mate-desktop on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                mate-desktop
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the mate-desktop package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: mate-desktop
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.26.0-0ubuntu1
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: universe/x11
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian+Ubuntu MATE Packaging Team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 114
Depends: hicolor-icon-theme, libmate-desktop-2-17 (>= 1.10.0), mate-desktop-common (= 1.26.0-0ubuntu1), libc6 (>= 2.34), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.50.0), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.0.0)
Recommends: mate-user-guide
Suggests: mate-desktop-environment
Breaks: mate-desktop-gnome
Replaces: mate-desktop-gnome
Filename: pool/universe/m/mate-desktop/mate-desktop_1.26.0-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 28894
MD5sum: b49112f7be68bb6987ccd7f2a9e2b115
SHA1: 822ed7c004b8d824189d7c82c58b8e55531ff3e1
SHA256: c0ffb41e45974b247460059945ce9896a51349d543ed0351353d3ca21ad71bdc
SHA512: 3b58bb0a335c51cd3caaa6df9cd954b356e5dd3fdee0428140de2fbb7aa027acec8b3b61329a83ad2988357da1c90fff41e4abe800daa78c12df820b54ae9b3d
Homepage: http://www.mate-desktop.org/
Description-en: Library with common API for various MATE modules
The MATE component mate-desktop contains the libmate-desktop library, the
mate-about program, as well as some desktop-wide documents.
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The libmate-desktop library provides an API shared by several applications
on the desktop, but that cannot live in the platform for various
reasons.
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The mate-about program helps with finding which version of MATE is installed.
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NOTE: This package does not install the complete MATE desktop environment
for you. The full desktop environment can be installed via the metapackage
mate-desktop-environment.
Description-md5: 6d7d3150b8e89c4689a4a7170fbe0634
Task: ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop