The problem with MATE packages I posted yesterday can be solved by preferences file. Create the file as root, by any text editor, nano for example: nano /etc/apt/preferences and past the code: Package: * Pin: origin repo.mate-desktop.org Pin-Priority: 700 Then run: apt-get update && apt-get dist upgrade From now, the package manager will be … Read more
Important info for Sparky MATE users. Due MATE packages showed up in Debian testing repository, they made a big problem to existing packages of official MATE packages. If you upgrade your Sparky MATE installation via Synaptic or ‘dist-upgrade’ command, it will destroy the MATE desktop completly. In this moment I highly suggest to use … Read more
The last week updates of Openbox up to version 3.5.2-5 can make some problems. It will install ‘openbox-gnome-session’ package as its depends and whole basic GNOME3 environment as well 🙂 If you’d like to put everything back to the prevoius stage, remove extra packages from the system: apt-get remove nautilus openbox-gnome-session gdm3 gnome-bluetooth gnome-control-center … Read more
There are two new Enlightenment themes for Sparky made by our forum member Agust.