Installing a MINIMAL Mate Desktop How?
When Squeeze was the latest I was able to install without any
desktop.
I would then do
apt-get install gnome-session gdm3 gedit gnome-terminal gparted
The result was a nice uncluttered desktop to which I could add
what *I* needed rather than what the proverbial "everybody"
should have ;)
According to http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download#debian I
should be able to do
apt-get install mate-desktop-environment-core
That is not enough, it leaves me with only a command line.
I have the full Mate desktop on one machine. Using Synaptic on
that machine and using apt-get install **** on the other I was
able too identify some missing pieces.
"apt-get install mate-desktop-environment-core" does not install
marco, xorg, xterm, nor lightdm. My brute force diagnostic
procedure was to install each of them in the order listed with a
reboot in between to see if everything worked. It did not. After
installing each of the 1st three I was left at the command line.
After installing lightdm I was presented with a blank screen.
As I have minimal bandwidth available I am installing from
purchased DVD's - currently version 8.0.0 . After the point
release later this month I will obtain the latest.
Has anyone successfully done such a minimal install as I am
attempting?
TIA
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