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Re: Installing a MINIMAL Mate Desktop How?

Hi Richard
I for one always make a minimal install, which means i only install the base. (You can select that in tasksel during the installation)
From there on i build the system so to speak myself. Installing xorg and the needed video driver, the core package for my DE of choice (which currently is gnome) and then i install my display manager of choice (i use gdm atm). 
After that you either start gdm yourself by doing:
# systemctl enable gdm && systemctl start gdm
or you simply do a reboot... then you should be presented with your display manager of choice and you can login to your DE.
About your problem with having to less applications installed with the core mate package: 
Have a look at the mate-desktop-environment meta package:
https://packages.debian.org/jessie/mate-desktop-environment
There you can see which applications get pulled in, you can select them yourself and then you can install the mate-desktop-environment-core package and add the software you need. 

I hope this helps you

Best regards

mo

Am 11.09.2016 um 13:47 schrieb Richard Owlett:

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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