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-MATE Utilities
-===============================================================================
-
-MATE Utilities for the MATE Desktop contains the following:
-
- mate-system-log [logview]
- mate-search-tool [gseachtool]
- mate-dictionary [mate-dictionary]
- mate-screenshot [mate-screenshot]
- mate-disk-usage-analyzer [baobab]
-
-This is a fork of GNOME Utilities.
-
-Requirements:
-
- intltool >= 0.50.1
- mate-common >= 1.10.0
- glib >= 2.36.0
- gio >= 2.36.0
- gtk+ >= 3.14.0
- libmate-panel-applet >= 1.17.0
- libgtop >= 2.12.0
- libcanberra-gtk >= 0.4
-
-The following configure flags can be used:
-
- --enable-zlib Enable ZLib support for Logview [default=yes]
- --with-grep Specify the path to the grep
- command [default=find it ourselves]
- --enable-debug Enable debug messages [default=no]
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+mate-utils
+=========================
+Contains MATE Utility programs for the MATE Desktop, namely the following:
+
+* mate-system-log [logview]
+* mate-search-tool [gsearchtool]
+* mate-dictionary [mate-dictionary]
+* mate-screenshot [mate-screenshot]
+* mate-disk-usage-analyzer [baobab]
+
+mate-utils is a fork of GNOME Utilities. 
+This software is licensed under the GNU GPL. For more on the license, see COPYING.
+
+Requirements
+========================
+* intltool >= 0.50.1
+* mate-common >= 1.24.1
+* GLib >= 2.50.0
+* GIO >= 2.50.0
+* GTK+ >= 3.22.0
+* libmate-panel-applet >= 1.17.0
+* libgtop >= 2.12.0
+* libcanberra-gtk >= 0.4
+
+The following configure flags can be used:
+
+ `--enable-zlib`: Enable ZLib support for Logview [default=yes]
+ `--with-grep`: Specify the path to the grep command [default=find it ourselves]
+ `--enable-debug`: Enable debug messages [default=no]