On Sun, 28 Jun 2020 08:21:29 -0500 Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote:
> The default install of the MATE desktop installs too much I don't want. > Unfortunately the Debian installer does not allow coerces the > installation of "recommended" packages. > > Therefore I did an install without *ANY* desktop environment. > [Used DVD1 of Debian 8.6, latest for which I had a physical DVD] > > I then did > apt-get --no-install-recommends install mate-desktop-environment gparted > > On reboot the desktop did not appear. > > What is the forgotten command to automatically launch the desktop at boot? > > TIA Did you install the X server and its depends? Did you manually run startx? I assume you boot to a terminal and log-in there. B
