Install MATE Desktop Environment for Debian on the pine64

pine64-install-mate-debian.sh

#!/bin/bash

set -e

DISTRO=""
if hash apt-get 2>/dev/null; then
	DISTRO=debian
fi

if [ -z "$DISTRO" ]; then
	echo "This script requires a Debian based Linux distribution."
	exit 1
fi

if [ "$(id -u)" -ne "0" ]; then
	echo "This script requires root."
	exit 1
fi

# Packages to install
PACKAGES=(
	xserver-xorg-video-fbturbo
	xserver-xorg-video-armsoc-sunxi
	libmali-sunxi-utgard0-r6p0
	mesa-utils-extra
	glmark2-es2
	libvdpau-sunxi1
	vdpauinfo
	aisleriot
	geany
	gnomine
	gnome-sudoku
	mplayer
	scratch
	smplayer
	smplayer-themes
	smtube
	chromium-browser
	mate-desktop-environment-core
	lightdm
)

# Install.
apt -y update
apt -y --no-install-recommends install ${PACKAGES[@]}

# Kill parport module loading, not available on arm64.
if [ -e "/etc/modules-load.d/cups-filters.conf" ]; then
	echo "" >/etc/modules-load.d/cups-filters.conf
fi

# Disable Pulseaudio timer scheduling which does not work with sndhdmi driver.
if [ -e "/etc/pulse/default.pa" ]; then
	sed -i 's/load-module module-udev-detect$/& tsched=0/g' /etc/pulse/default.pa
fi

systemctl set-default graphical.target

echo
echo "Done - Mate installed - you should reboot now."

jessie-minimal-pine64-0.7.19-118.img.xz appears no different, and enabling backports and testing repos doesn't doing anything useful either. It seems that xorg-video-abi-20 was a virtual package provided by a specific version of xserver-xorg-core, and the debian repos skipped that particular version. i.e xorg-video-abi was 18 in jessie, is 23 in stretch and is 18, 23 and 24 in sid. So debian skipped the magic xorg-video-abi-20 that is needed to resolve the package dependency issues.