Re: Installing a MINIMAL Mate Desktop How?
On Sun 11 Sep 2016 at 06:47:23 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> 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 ;)
gnome-session pulls in xserver-org-video-all and installs it on the
*same* machine. Graphical programs like gnome-terminal and gedit run on
the *same* machine as the X server runs on and will display an output
there. This is a very common situation but it does not have to be like
that.
An X server runs and produces an output on the machine you are sitting
in front of. Programs like gedit could be on a *different* machine. This
is just as valid a setup as the "common" one. It implies that such
things as, for example, window manager packages do not depend on an X
server being installed.
> 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.
You got what was promised - a minimal mate install. You need an X server
on that machine or another one if you want other than the 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.
mate-desktop-environment-core depends on marco. There is something
seriously wrong if it was not installed.
xorg isn't required to be on the same machine as mate; that is why it
was not installed. mate-terminal does the same job as xterm. The mate
maintainers might have decided not have a DM as a depended on or
recommended package.
--
Brian.
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