On 2021-06-25, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote: > One paragraph of "Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide"[1] causes me > grief. It is part of "6.3.5. Installing the Base System"[2]. > Install only the standard system utilities with the installer, and then once you have a core system up and running install mate-desktop-environment-core which is purported to be the minimal set of packages for Mate.