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<h1 id="what-is-what-in-mate-and-gnome.">What is what in MATE and GNOME.</h1>
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MATE
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GNOME
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What it is?
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Caja
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Nautilus
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File manager
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Pluma
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Gedit
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Text editor
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Eye of MATE
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Eye of GNOME
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Picture viewer
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Atril
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Evince
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Document viewer
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Engrampa
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File roller
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File extractor
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MATE Terminal
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GNOME Terminal
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Terminal emulator
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<h1 id="notice-about-aptitude">Notice about aptitude</h1>
<p>If you don't have aptitude installed, you can get it with</p>
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<p>apt-get install aptitude</p>
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<p>as root or if you don't want to use it,</p>
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<p>alias aptitude=apt-get</p>
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<h1 id="removing-gnome-versions.">Removing GNOME versions.</h1>
<p>If you want to remove GNOME versions, just run</p>
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<p>aptitude remove nautilus gedit eom evince file-roller gnome-terminal</p>
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<p>as root.</p>
<h1 id="removing-mate-versions">Removing MATE versions</h1>
<p>If you want to remove MATE versions, just run</p>
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<p>aptitude remove caja mate-text-editor eom atril engrampa mate-terminal</p>
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<p>as root.</p>
<h1 id="warning-you-do-everything-on-this-page-with-your-own-risk.">WARNING: You do everything on this page with your own risk.</h1>
<h1 id="sources">Sources</h1>
<p><a href="http://mate-desktop.org/applications/">MATE applicaltions</a></p>
<p>Own experience with Linux since 2008.</p>
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