After upgrading from Mate 1.6 to 1.8, on the Control Centre, the 'Main Menu' (editing) and 'Software & Updates' options do not function. Something no longer works in Mate 1.8, or something has not been installed that should have been.
Any ideas gratefully received.
PC is a Dell Latitude D610 with 1GB of RAM.
Software & Updates: check in Synaptic do you have installed 'software-properties-gtk' package.
If not, install it.
Main Menu: looks like a Mate bug. The application is called 'mozo' and it's installed but doesn't want to run.
Should be reported to Mate team I think.
Thanks, pavroo, for the prompt response. Will check this evening and also search the Mate forums for a clue as to why 'mozo' doesn't appear to be working, and then update this post.
OK, the 'software-properties-gtk' package is installed, but alas, Software & Updates still doesn't work.
On trawling the www for possible solution for the Main Menu problem, I found this site:
http://forums.mate-desktop.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1485
In it is a big list of packages that could (probably should) be removed after installing the Mate desktop, including lots of gnome packages. I have removed some (and some are not installed anyway), but others indicate that 'mate-core', 'mate-common' or sparky packages (e.g. zenity) will also be removed, which I am not sure is such a good idea. You thought?
I'll keep looking for clues.
Software-properties: remove file lsb-release (as root) :
Code:
rm -f /etc/lsb-release
It's a small bug, I posted it on our forum 2 or 3 times already.
Then it should start working.
Most of the gnome packages has been removed before. Honestly I never installed them in any Sparky version.
So... don't follow the instruction from the external forum, becouse we don't use gnome.
Sparky Mate Edition has a few packages around gnome preinstalled such as network-manager-gnome, camorama, gnome-alsamixer, gnome-icons, gufw, gdebi, liferea, simple-scan, system-config-printer.
Keep all of them as well as zenity zenity-common libreoffice-gtk.
You can remove packs: metacity metacity-common (if is still there)
Code:
sudo apt-get remove metacity metacity-common
apt-get autoremove
Anyway i will try to report the bug on mate forum, becouse it's nothigh about Sparky.
To fix mozo, switch repository from Mate to Debian:
http://sparkylinux.org/switch-mate-repository-from-mate-to-debian/Thank's for reporting the bug.
Thanks again pavroo - both bugs fixed. Great stuff.
I like this distro a lot. Installed on this D610 for my wife who's running a really old (and obsolete) version of ubuntu on an even older (celeron based) laptop. So this Mate desktop will be very familiar.