On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 11:17 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > I've a gut feeling that logically mate-desktop-environment-core should have > a dependency on something providing an X11 server. I did not find a > satisfactory answer manually examining pages from > https://packages.debian.org/jessie/... . I don't have a machine on which to > experiment with install until early next week.
The standard package to install to get a Mate desktop is task-mate-desktop. This is what is installed when you choose Mate in the Debian installer. The -core package is an internal implementation detail that probably shouldn't be mentioned on the wiki page, but I left it there for advanced users. If you want something advanced, you need to be able to read the instructions to add a display manager. If you are even more advanced and prefer to run startx instead of a display manager then I presume you know how to install an X11 server. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
