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Martin Wimpress, developer at Ubuntu MATE, officially announces the release of PPA for MATE 1.8.1 packages specially for Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty Tahr" which have been side ported from Debian. From past few months, the developers are consistently working on stable PPA for MATE desktop designed for Ubuntu and now the PPA is available for public usage.

According to official announcement made by Martin Wimpress at Google Plus Page, he state that "One of the requests that has come out of my discussions with Ubuntu Technical Board was creating a MATE 1.8.1 PPA for Ubuntu Trusty 14.04. So, I have designed PPA for MATE desktop which installs MATE 1.8.1 desktop environment on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr system.

He also state that making a PPA for MATE is quite easy instead of providing packages in the official repositories. Currently this is in testing phase but soon will be available for public use. He also mentioned how could any one install MATE 1.8.1 desktop environment using PPA on Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty Tahr" system. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

Step 1 : Before beginning the installation, Open the terminal and run or copy the following command in terminal to add PPA for Ubuntu MATE on your Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty Tahr" system.

Step 2 : Next, run or copy the following command in terminal to add PPA for Ubuntu MATE which is specifically designed for Trusty Tahr system.

Step 3 : Next, run or copy the following command in terminal to update recently added PPAs in the software repository on your Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr system.

Step 4 : Next, run or copy the following command in terminal to upgrade existing PPAs to newer one on your Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr system.

Step 5 : Finally, run or copy the following command in terminal to install latest stable MATE 1.8.1 desktop environment on your Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr system.

After installation, restart your system. You will see choice on login page where you can select MATE desktop environment as default desktop environment. You might also like to check out recent HowTo Tutorials to know how to install any specific software on various Linux Distros.

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