On 06/28/2020 08:39 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
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?
No, I had assumed that was a depends. OOOPS ;/
Did you manually run startx?
No ;}
I assume you boot to a terminal and log-in there.
That's what happens. I had expected booting would yield the MATE desktop.
I did
apt-get --no-install-recommends install xorg
startx
That yielded a MATE desktop with a minimalist's dream menu <grin>
It does not yet boot to the MATE desktop automatically.
I've not yet investigated xorg's recommends.
I am reading https://wiki.debian.org/Xorg .
[Think I've found a typo, but need to follow the internal links to be sure.]
*Thank you*
This septuagenarian does some things the hard way to gain education ;}
B
