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Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment

From Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment
Date 2020-06-28 15:40 +0200
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On Sun, 28 Jun 2020 08:21:29 -0500
Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> 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?
> 
> TIA

Did you install the X server and its depends? Did you manually run
startx? I assume you boot to a terminal and log-in there.

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Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-06-28 15:30 +0200
  Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-06-28 15:40 +0200
    Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-06-28 16:20 +0200
      Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment echo test <echotest09@gmail.com> - 2020-06-28 16:40 +0200
        update-alternatives - was [Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command  line environment] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-06-29 14:20 +0200
          Re: update-alternatives - was [Re: Installing/launching MATE in a  command line environment] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-06-29 14:30 +0200
            Re: update-alternatives - was [Re: Installing/launching MATE in a  command line environment] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-06-29 16:00 +0200
              Re: update-alternatives - was [Re: Installing/launching MATE in a  command line environment] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-06-29 16:40 +0200
                Re: update-alternatives - was [Re: Installing/launching MATE in a  command line environment] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-06-29 17:50 +0200
          Re: update-alternatives - was [Re: Installing/launching MATE in a  command line environment] davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2020-06-29 16:20 +0200
            Re: update-alternatives - was [Re: Installing/launching MATE in a  command line environment] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-06-29 17:30 +0200
              Re: update-alternatives - was [Re: Installing/launching MATE in a  command line environment] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-06-29 19:10 +0200
              Re: update-alternatives - was [Re: Installing/launching MATE in a  command line environment] Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2020-06-29 19:50 +0200
          Re: update-alternatives - was [Re: Installing/launching MATE in a  command line environment] David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-06-30 02:40 +0200
            Re: update-alternatives - was [Re: Installing/launching MATE in a  command line environment] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-06-30 12:40 +0200
        Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-06-29 14:40 +0200
          Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-06-29 14:40 +0200
          Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2020-09-13 01:00 +0200
            Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-09-14 14:30 +0200
              Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2020-09-14 16:20 +0200
  Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-06-28 17:20 +0200
    Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-06-28 18:10 +0200
      Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-06-28 22:00 +0200
        Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2020-06-28 22:50 +0200
          Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-06-29 14:40 +0200
            Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-06-29 14:50 +0200
            Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2020-06-29 19:00 +0200
    [SOLVED] Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-06-29 12:10 +0200
  Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-06-28 20:00 +0200
  Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2020-06-29 01:40 +0200
    Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-06-29 12:10 +0200
  Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-06-29 21:20 +0200

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