Installing MATE on Arch Linux

The following will assist you:

• http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/archlinux_custom_repo
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MATE

Introduction

NOTE! These PKGBUILDs are no longer maintained here.

MATE is available from the official Arch Linux [community] repository, as such stable MATE packages are now maintained by the Arch Linux Trusted Users. This repository is only used for testing/developing the current in development releases of MATE.

Developing MATE packages for Arch Linux

The packages are now maintained by the Arch Linux Trusted Users.

Submitting bugs

Please submit Arch Linux packaging bugs for MATE desktop to the Arch Linux bug tracker.

• https://bugs.archlinux.org/

If you find a bug in one of the MATE applications, applets or plugins then please file it in the relevant MATE desktop repository issue tracker.

• https://github.com/mate-desktop/

GTK2 and GTK3

The following packages can be build against GTK2 or GTK3.

• mate-desktop [ DONE ]
• libmatekbd [ DONE ]
• libmateweather [ DONE ]
• caja [ DONE ]
• caja-gtk3 [ DONE ]
• mate-polkit [ DONE ]
• marco [ DONE ]
• marco-gtk3 [ DONE ]
• mate-settings-daemon [ DONE ]
• mate-settings-daemon-gtk3 [ DONE ]
• mate-session-manager [ DONE ]
• mate-session-manager-gtk3 [ DONE ]
• mate-panel [ DONE ]
• mate-panel-gtk3 [ DONE ]
• mate-media [ DONE ]
• mate-media-gtk3 [ DONE ]
• mate-notification-daemon [ DONE ]
• mate-control-center [ DONE ]
• mate-control-center-gtk3 [ DONE ]
• mate-screensaver [ DONE ]
• mate-screensaver-gtk3 [ DONE ]
• engrampa [ DONE ]
• engrampa-gtk3 [ DONE ]
• mate-power-manager [ DONE ]
• mate-power-manager-gtk3 [ DONE ]
• mate-system-monitor [ DONE ]
• atril [ DONE ]
• atril-gtk3 [ DONE ]
• caja-extensions [ DONE ]
• caja-extensions-gtk3 [ DONE ]
• mate-applets [ DONE ]
• mate-applets-gtk3 [ DONE ]
• eom [ DONE ]
• eom-gtk3 [ DONE ]
• mate-icon-theme-faenza [ DONE ]
• mozo [ DONE ]
• mate-netbook [ DONE ]
• mate-netbook-gtk3 [ DONE ]
• mate-netspeed [ DONE ]
• mate-netspeed-gtk3 [ DONE ]
• mate-sensors-applet [ DONE ]
• mate-sensors-applet-gtk3 [ DONE ]
• mate-terminal [ DONE ]
• mate-terminal-gtk3 [ DONE ]
• pluma [ DONE ]
• pluma-gtk3 [ DONE ]
• mate-user-share [ DONE ]
• mate-user-share-gtk3 [ DONE ]
• mate-utils [ DONE ]
• mate-utils-gtk3 [ DONE ]
• python2-caja [ DONE ]
• python2-caja-gtk3 [ DONE ]
• galculator [ DONE ]
• mate-user-guide *"https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ob/obex-data-server/obex-data-server.tar.gz"
• blueman

These are the replacements you need to look out for:

replaces.append(["gtk2", "gtk3"])
replaces.append(["--with-gtk=2.0", "--with-gtk=3.0"])
replaces.append(["libunique", "libunique3"])
replaces.append(["vte290", "vte"])
replaces.append(["libwnck", "libwnck3"])
replaces.append(["gtkmm", "gtkmm3"])
replaces.append(["gtksourceview2", "gtksourceview3"])
replaces.append(["webkitgtk2", "webkitgtk"])

TODO

• Add GTK2/3 versions in the description of caja-extensions packages. [ DONE ]
• Remove obsolete pkgdesc+= references. [ DONE ]
• Disable python for the GTK3 builds of Pluma and eom. [ DONE ]
• Remove Python from libmateweather. [ DONE ]
• Mark GTK2-versions as STABLE and GTK3-versions as EXPERIMENTAL. [ DONE ]
• Disable mpaste and mate-conf in mate-desktop [ DONE ]
• Clean up redundant deps on yelp-tools [ DONE ]
• Currently gnome-main-menu and mozo are GTK2 only.
• Collect all build logs and PKGBUILDs
• eom requires python2-gobject2.