From 9595700c5e9edc8c1266a51c93ebb282bd31e8c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chess Griffin Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 23:21:35 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] tweak README.TXT Signed-off-by: Chess Griffin --- README.TXT | 20 +++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.TXT b/README.TXT index 396c271..0167a4b 100644 --- a/README.TXT +++ b/README.TXT @@ -3,21 +3,23 @@ MATE SlackBuilds Here are some SlackBuild scripts to build and install the MATE desktop environment on Slackware. Currently, they build and install MATE 1.7 which is -the development release towards MATE 1.8. For those wanted to install MATE 1.6 -which was released on April 2, 2013, please checkout the '1.6' branch (step 2). -Please check the main project website at http://mateslackbuilds.github.com for -screenshots and more information. -There is also a link there to some binary packages for Slackware 14.0. +the development release towards MATE 1.8. For those who want to install the +latest stable release of MATE 1.6 which was released on April 2, 2013, please +checkout the '1.6' branch (step 2). Please check the main project website at +http://mateslackbuilds.github.com for screenshots and more information. There +is also a link there to some MATE 1.6 binary packages for Slackware 14.0. How to build and install the MATE packages using these scripts: 1. Clone the Git repo or download a tarball/zip of the repo. 2. Read GIT_BRANCHES.TXT to make sure you are on the right branch of the MSB -repo. After cloning the initial Git repo, you will be using 'master' branch -which will build MATE 1.7 and considered development branch. The stable branch -is '1.6'. Checkout that branch using 'git checkout 1.6' to build from the -stable branch. +repo. After cloning the initial Git repo, you will be using 'master' branch +which will build the development branch of MATE 1.7. Building from the +development branch is not supported and may or may not work at any given +moment. Most users will want to build from the stable branch which is '1.6'. +Checkout that branch using 'git checkout 1.6' to build from the stable MSB +branch. 3. Run the 'mate-build-base.sh' in the msb root directory which will build and install all the base (required) packages, including necessary dependencies