On Sun 28 Jun 2020 at 11:02:53 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/28/2020 10:15 AM, David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 28 Jun 2020 at 08:21:29 (-0500), Richard Owlett 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? > > > > You appear to want to install MATE manually without Recommends, rather > > than within the d-i and with Recommends. > > Yes. > > > In that case, you should > > install task-mate-desktop, not just mate-desktop-environment: > > > > Package: task-mate-desktop > > Depends: tasksel (= 3.53), task-desktop, mate-desktop-environment, > > lightdm > > Recommends: gimp, synaptic, libreoffice, libreoffice-help-en-us, > > mythes-en-us, hunspell-en-us, hyphen-en-us, network-manager-gnome, orca, > > libreoffice-gtk3 > > Description: MATE > > This task package is used to install the Debian desktop, featuring > > the MATE desktop environment, and with other packages that Debian > > users > > expect to have available on the desktop. > > > > Just tried that. Now the boot process does NOT complete. > It may have collided with other things I have tried. > I'll redo all from scratch to to eliminate that possibility. > This time I'll create a log file. > I'm not sure If I'll get back to it until tomorrow. > Thanks.
All good stuff. All very interesting. All very resolvable when a user has a clue what he is doing. We have gone from unable to boot the MATE desktop to not being able to boot at all! Carry on installing. :) Debian installs Recommends: by default. Your issue demonstrates exactly why it was made so. -- Brian.
