On 6/27/21 7:37 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 07:31:57AM -0700, Peter Ehlert wrote:
On 6/27/21 12:29 AM, Curt wrote:
On 2021-06-25, Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote:
One paragraph of "Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide"[1] causes me
grief. It is part of "6.3.5. Installing the Base System"[2].
Install only the standard system utilities with the installer,
and then once you have a core system up and running install
mate-desktop-environment-core
which is purported to be the minimal set of packages for Mate.
good thought,
I tried that just now but something is still missing.
nada, no desktop, only the command line and "startx not found"
You also need to install "xorg", which will bring in the X server and
various utilities to make it run, including startx (which is in the
xinit package, which is a direct dependency of xorg).
Thanks, that works
I do still need to run startx but that's not a problem
X clients like MATE don't directly depend on an X server, because in
theory, the X server could be on a different machine.
