On the way to get MATE officially available on OpenSUSE, the community repositories have to be changed in YaST. For that, go to YaST -> Software -> Software Repositories and remove X11:MATE:Factory repo and next, click on the following links in function of your OpenSUSE version:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositori ... E:1.6.repo for OpenSUSE 12.2
http://download.opensuse.org/repositori ... E:1.6.repo for OpenSUSE 12.3
http://download.opensuse.org/repositori ... E:1.6.repo for OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
http://mate-desktop.org/2013/08/10/new- ... -opensuse/
