MATE is officially available in Arch Linux

Martin Wimpress — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 22:22:22 GMT

MATE has finally found it's way home.

As some of you may know MATE was created by an Arch Linux user, Perberos. It is somewhat ironic then that MATE has never featured in the official Arch Linux package repository until now. That's right, MATE is finally available in the Arch Linux [community] package repository!

You can find out everything you need to know about installing MATE on Arch Linux from the following wiki pages:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MATE

It is also worth noting that the now obsolete unofficial MATE package repository will be removed once all the Arch Linux mirrors are synced. So go and update /etc/pacman.conf and remove the [mate] package repository.

The other advantage of getting MATE into the official Arch Linux package repository is that MATE will now also feature in the Arch Linux ARM package repository. I can finally retire my Raspberry Pi (armv6h) and Cubox Pro (armv7h) build "servers". I'm not sure how long it will take for all the MATE packages to appear in the Arch Linux ARM package repository but I have already seen that some packages are built.

MATE runs really well on the Raspberry Pi Model B with 512MB RAM, so if you have a Pi and a spare SDCARD, give it a whirl. I'll be writing a blog post about how install Arch Linux and MATE on the Raspberry Pi with some useful performance tweaks in the near future.

MATE 1.6 packages for Arch Linux

Martin Wimpress — Sat, 16 Nov 2013 00:36:43 GMT

MATE 1.6 packages have been available for Arch Linux for a good while now. So why the blog post?

Over the last few months the MATE 1.6 packages for Arch Linux have been fixed, cleaned up and enhanced. Here is an overview of what we've been working on:

All Arch Linux specific bugs have been fixed.
New automated build scripts and build cluster.
Full support for the following platforms:
- armv6h (Raspberry Pi)
- armv7h
- i686
- x86_64
Packaged 9 additional applications/applets contributed by the MATE community.
Choice of Pulse Audio or GStreamer backends.
Cherry picked some systemd and logind features from MATE 1.7.
Cherry picked some upower features from MATE 1.7.
Cherry picked miscellaneous bug fixes from MATE 1.7.
MATE 1.6 PKGBUILDs now automatically synced to the AUR.
The Arch Linux package repository for MATE is now signed.

You can find out everything you need to know about installing MATE 1.6 on Arch Linux from the following wiki page:

https://wiki.mate-desktop.org/#!pages/./archlinux_custom_repo.md

I'd like to say a special thank you to:

Wolfgang Ulbrich for working with the Fedora development team to hunt down systemd, logind and upower fixes that are hugely beneficial for Arch Linux and also for contributing a good number of the community applications.
Sander Sweers and Stefano Karapetsas for welcoming me to the MATE Team and helping me out on IRC.

Now that the MATE 1.6 packages are in good shape I will start the process of getting MATE into the official Arch Linux repositories. You can help with that by voting for MATE packages in the AUR.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=flexiondotorg

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MATE is officially available in Arch Linux

MATE 1.6 packages for Arch Linux