On Sun 27 Jun 2021 at 08:33:58 -0700, Peter Ehlert wrote: > > 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
For veteran Debian users the special purpose Debian installer to install MATE is accessed after first boot with apt install task-mate-desktop --no-install-recommends Also available from the installer itself with the correct degree of tickling. -- Brian.
