On Sat, Aug 12, 2023 at 06:37:30PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > I need X running so I can use firefox to go get and build the rest of the > software I am building this thing to run.
Then why on earth are you installing a full Desktop Environment? If you need to use Firefox to obtain files and then compile them, then what you need are xorg, firefox-esr, build-essential, and some kind of simple window manager. twm would suffice, or fvwm, or whatever you're comfortable with. Hell, in theory you could skip the window manager and just run "startx firefox" or something. You'd be limited to a single browser window, but that's not a crippling limitation. Or, as an alternative, you could obtain the files from another machine, and copy them over. Then you only need build-essential, and NONE of the rest. (For a given value of "build", of course. You may need other development tools beyond build-essential, but we can't advise you on that without more information.) I would absolutely NOT install GNOME unless you need it for something more than just launching a web browser.
