On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 07:31:57AM -0700, Peter Ehlert wrote: > > On 6/27/21 12:29 AM, Curt wrote: > > On 2021-06-25, Richard Owlett <rowl...@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. > > good thought, > > I tried that just now but something is still missing. > nada, no desktop, only the command line and "startx not found"
You also need to install "xorg", which will bring in the X server and various utilities to make it run, including startx (which is in the xinit package, which is a direct dependency of xorg). X clients like MATE don't directly depend on an X server, because in theory, the X server could be on a different machine.
