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Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment

From Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment
Date 2020-06-28 18:10 +0200
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On 06/28/2020 10:15 AM, David Wright wrote:
> On Sun 28 Jun 2020 at 08:21:29 (-0500), Richard Owlett 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?
> 
> You appear to want to install MATE manually without Recommends, rather
> than within the d-i and with Recommends.

Yes.

> In that case, you should
> install task-mate-desktop, not just mate-desktop-environment:
> 
>      Package: task-mate-desktop
>      Depends: tasksel (= 3.53), task-desktop, mate-desktop-environment, lightdm
>      Recommends: gimp, synaptic, libreoffice, libreoffice-help-en-us, mythes-en-us, hunspell-en-us, hyphen-en-us, network-manager-gnome, orca, libreoffice-gtk3
>      Description: MATE
>        This task package is used to install the Debian desktop, featuring
>        the MATE desktop environment, and with other packages that Debian users
>        expect to have available on the desktop.
> 

Just tried that. Now the boot process does NOT complete.
It may have collided with other things I have tried.
I'll redo all from scratch to to eliminate that possibility.
This time I'll create a log file.
I'm not sure If I'll get back to it until tomorrow.
Thanks.

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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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