Re: Launch a minimal MATE DE

[Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz>]

On 6/03/22 22:20, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 06, 2022 at 09:34:36AM +0100, Christian Britz wrote:
> > On 2022-03-06 09:30 UTC+0100, Richard Owlett wrote:
> >
> > >> apt-get --no-install-recommends install mate-desktop-environment
> > > When I attempted to run startx I received the message
> > >> startx: command not found
> >
> > Hi Richard,
> >
> > I can't tell you anything about the dependencies but you could try to
> > install xinit package. This contains the startx command.
>
> (Thanks, Christian, for the fish. Now I'll try to sell the rod ;-)
>
> Reminder (paste this on a sticky note on your workshop wall :)
>
>    apt-file search startx

Just to solve the infinite recursion problem:

richard@zircon:~$ apt-file search bin/apt-file
apt-file: /usr/bin/apt-file

so install the apt-file package :-)

Cheers,
Richard