Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment
If I run a gui, I prefer to be logged in before that gui starts up.
Probably systemctl disable lightdm as root then editing startx such that
the last line runs mate gets something like this done.
On Sun, 28 Jun 2020, Brian wrote:
> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2020 15:53:59
> From: Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment
> Resent-Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2020 19:54:15 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> On Sun 28 Jun 2020 at 11:02:53 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> > On 06/28/2020 10:15 AM, David Wright wrote:
> > > On Sun 28 Jun 2020 at 08:21:29 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > > The default install of the MATE desktop installs too much I don't want.
> > > > Unfortunately the Debian installer does not allow coerces the
> > > > installation of "recommended" packages.
> > > >
> > > > Therefore I did an install without *ANY* desktop environment.
> > > > [Used DVD1 of Debian 8.6, latest for which I had a physical DVD]
> > > >
> > > > I then did
> > > > apt-get --no-install-recommends install mate-desktop-environment gparted
> > > >
> > > > On reboot the desktop did not appear.
> > > >
> > > > What is the forgotten command to automatically launch the desktop at boot?
> > >
> > > You appear to want to install MATE manually without Recommends, rather
> > > than within the d-i and with Recommends.
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > > In that case, you should
> > > install task-mate-desktop, not just mate-desktop-environment:
> > >
> > > Package: task-mate-desktop
> > > Depends: tasksel (= 3.53), task-desktop, mate-desktop-environment, lightdm
> > > Recommends: gimp, synaptic, libreoffice, libreoffice-help-en-us, mythes-en-us, hunspell-en-us, hyphen-en-us, network-manager-gnome, orca, libreoffice-gtk3
> > > Description: MATE
> > > This task package is used to install the Debian desktop, featuring
> > > the MATE desktop environment, and with other packages that Debian users
> > > expect to have available on the desktop.
> > >
> >
> > Just tried that. Now the boot process does NOT complete.
> > It may have collided with other things I have tried.
> > I'll redo all from scratch to to eliminate that possibility.
> > This time I'll create a log file.
> > I'm not sure If I'll get back to it until tomorrow.
> > Thanks.
>
> All good stuff. All very interesting. All very resolvable when a user
> has a clue what he is doing. We have gone from unable to boot the MATE
> desktop to not being able to boot at all! Carry on installing. :)
>
> Debian installs Recommends: by default. Your issue demonstrates exactly
> why it was made so.
>
>
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