On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 11:33:21PM -0500, Michael Morgan wrote:
> Dear friend,
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> I recently installed Debian 9.13 on my machine. I was planning to use it for
> scientific computation so GUI is not necessary. For some reason, I installed
> the desktop environment with LXDE desktop during installation. Later I
> decided to remove them. These two commands were executed:
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Hello,
may I interject here.
First, is there a particular reason why you installed an older version of
debian?
And second, there is no real reason to go through all of this.
You can make the non gui the default.
With systemd:
systemctl set-default multi-user.target
+1
I am actually curious, what SystemD does, if it expects graphical.target, yet the tools (x11, desktop, etc) are no longer available?
One note: My preference, is to set multi-user.target on my current systems, boot them into Text, sign into root in Console 2, and do the apt-get "ritual". If it includes a new Kernel (or is, in my opinion, complex), reboot. And then, as the next step, enter the "systemctl start graphical.target" command to get to the Desktop.
Good luck!
Kenneth Parker