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Re: Launch a minimal MATE DE

From Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Launch a minimal MATE DE
Date 2022-03-08 02:00 +0100
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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

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Launch a minimal MATE DE Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2022-03-06 09:40 +0100
  Re: Launch a minimal MATE DE Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2022-03-06 09:40 +0100
    Re: Launch a minimal MATE DE Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2022-03-06 10:00 +0100
      Re: Launch a minimal MATE DE Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2022-03-06 10:10 +0100
        Re: Launch a minimal MATE DE Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2022-03-06 10:40 +0100
    Re: Launch a minimal MATE DE <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-03-06 10:30 +0100
      Re: Launch a minimal MATE DE Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2022-03-06 10:50 +0100
        Re: Launch a minimal MATE DE <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-03-06 11:10 +0100
      Re: Launch a minimal MATE DE Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2022-03-08 02:00 +0100
        Re: Launch a minimal MATE DE <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-03-08 07:10 +0100
          Re: Launch a minimal MATE DE David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-03-08 16:10 +0100
            Re: Launch a minimal MATE DE <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-03-08 17:50 +0100
            Re: Launch a minimal MATE DE Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2022-03-11 10:50 +0100

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