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Mate 1.14 on Debian Jessie?

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Re: Mate 1.14 on Debian Jessie?

#41 Post by NFT5 »

:lol: Of course they did. A week after I got jack of not having my weather widget and took the risk of creating a FrankenDebian by installing MATE 1.16. Not rolling back now - it works just fine.

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Re: Mate 1.14 on Debian Jessie?

#42 Post by None1975 »

NFT5 wrote: and took the risk of creating a FrankenDebian by installing MATE 1.16. Not rolling back now - it works just fine.
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Re: Mate 1.14 on Debian Jessie?

#43 Post by stevepusser »

No, I didn't configure it to build a brake system...
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Re: Mate 1.14 on Debian Jessie?

#44 Post by stevepusser »

I made a new Jessie OBS repository for MATE 1.18 and did a test upgrade on a 1.16 installation I had in a virtual machine. It went smoothly and I don't see any theme issues with what I'm using, but users should be aware that 1.18 is now all GTK 3, all the time, so any GTK 3 themes must work with Jessie's 3.14.

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Re: Mate 1.14 on Debian Jessie?

#45 Post by Frotz »

Is this usable with Stretch?

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Re: Mate 1.14 on Debian Jessie?

#46 Post by stevepusser »

Not fully, the Jessie 1.18 marco MATE window manager can't be installed on Stretch because it wants a library version only found in Jessie; libgtop2-7. Everything else was upgradable in my simulation in a Live VBox session of a Stretch-based distro (antiX 17 alpha) When I had it remove marco and the mate-desktop-environment packages and upgrade the rest in antiX, I could log out and back into a MATE 1.18 session--so I guess it fell back onto one of the other lightweight gtk window managers included in antiX. I bet it could also fall back onto xfwm if that was installed in straight Debian.
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Re: Mate 1.14 on Debian Jessie?

#47 Post by Gimz »

stevepusser wrote:I made a new Jessie OBS repository for MATE 1.18...

https://software.opensuse.org//download ... nvironment
hi @stevepusser, thank you for your hard work on MATE, i updated my Debian 8.8 Mate 1.16 to Mate 1.18 and i have this error:

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The following packages will be upgraded:
  mate-icon-theme-faenza
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/21.2 MB of archives.
After this operation, 7,555 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Reading changelogs... Done
(Reading database ... 274725 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../mate-icon-theme-faenza_1.18.0.dfsg1-0.obs_all.deb ...
Unpacking mate-icon-theme-faenza (1.18.0.dfsg1-0.obs) over (1.16.0-0~bpo80.obs) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/mate-icon-theme-faenza_1.18.0.dfsg1-0.obs_all.deb (--unpack):
 unable to open '/usr/share/icons/matefaenzagray/actions/96/package-remove.png.dpkg-new': No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/mate-icon-theme-faenza_1.18.0.dfsg1-0.obs_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
how can i resolve this error?

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Re: Mate 1.14 on Debian Jessie?

#48 Post by stevepusser »

It looks like you got a corrupted/incomplete download. Let's remove it from the apt-cache and see if it redownloads correctly.

As root or sudo in a terminal:

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rm /var/cache/apt/archives/mate-icon-theme-faenza_1.18.0.dfsg1-0.obs_all.deb
And then try the upgrade again--watch to see if it redownloads that file.
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Re: Mate 1.14 on Debian Jessie?

#49 Post by Gimz »

thanks for the quick reply @stevepusser, it did download the new file but the error is still this same.

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Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Get:1 http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/stevenpusser:/MATE-1.18/Debian_8.0/  mate-icon-theme-faenza 1.18.0.dfsg1-0.obs [21.2 MB]
Fetched 21.2 MB in 48s (435 kB/s)                                              
Reading changelogs... Done
(Reading database ... 274725 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../mate-icon-theme-faenza_1.18.0.dfsg1-0.obs_all.deb ...
Unpacking mate-icon-theme-faenza (1.18.0.dfsg1-0.obs) over (1.16.0-0~bpo80.obs) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/mate-icon-theme-faenza_1.18.0.dfsg1-0.obs_all.deb (--unpack):
 unable to open '/usr/share/icons/matefaenzagray/actions/96/package-remove.png.dpkg-new': No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/mate-icon-theme-faenza_1.18.0.dfsg1-0.obs_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@debian8:/home/pidod/Desktop#
i resolved the error by removing the mate-faenza-icon-theme 1.16.obs using the synaptic package manager and reinstalled version 1.18.0 from there. thanks a lot Steve.

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Re: Mate 1.14 on Debian Jessie?

#50 Post by VentGrey »

never thought one of my newbie questions would make such progress... :mrgreen:
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Re: Mate 1.14 on Debian Jessie?

#51 Post by stevepusser »

For MATE 1.18, updating mate-tweak, mate-control-center, mate-media, libmateweather, and mate-dock-applet. Builds should be finished in a couple minutes up there in "the cloud".
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