arochester
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it doesn't ship with a desktop by default
Debatable point. It comes with a box pre-ticked to install Debian Desktop Environment - Gnome. It needs to be unticked not to install it.
it doesn't ship with a desktop by default
Debatable point. It comes with a box pre-ticked to install Debian Desktop Environment - Gnome. It needs to be unticked not to install it.
Yes but at a certain point you have to select some mirror site to get the desktop from and after going through every single choice I could not get any further than that. I tried sudo apt install lxqt or gnome, but that didn't work.Precisely my point, it doesn't ship with a desktop by default, meaning you can opt to install just text mode and from there install everything else which is quite faster and much more reliable.
I should have used the text based install instead of the graphical install method, it's easy enough. Good tip!Debatable point. It comes with a box pre-ticked to install Debian Desktop Environment - Gnome. It needs to be unticked not to install it.
I liked the idea of a minimal system with only a browser and choosing only what you want, but Debian is too technical for me.
at a certain point you have to select some mirror site to get the desktop from
usermod -aG sudo my_user
systemctl reboot
sudo apt-get update
Maybe you needed to install sudo first as I found I had to.I tried sudo apt install lxqt or gnome, but that didn't work.
That's correct, I should have looked up how to install sudo on my mother's smartphone, done that and then the DE.I like my system as minimal as possible too. I just created a VM using the Debian netinst.iso and installed awesome-wm which I did before and even posted here https://www.linux.org/threads/debian-netinst-in-a-vm.21971/ at that time I used the stable stretch branch but now I wanted to play a bit with the testing/bullseye one and it was quite easy to set up. I'm not expert but I don't find Debian particularly "too technical".
I chose the first option Graphical install and proceeded with the installation following the debian installer instructions which are quite straightforward.
And I think I know why I never reached the install desktop screen, you said
Well, I did get an bad archive mirror error and can't remember whether or not it happened before but that might be the reason that the only screen I saw was this and not the one you and @arochester did
And of course I didn't remember seeing it cause I didn't see it in the first place. In any case I didn't care since my plan was to install awesome-wm so, just hit enter and continue.
Once the install process finished I rebooted the VM which did boot to a console
Logged in as root cause I needed to install sudo which is not installed by default
then I needed to add my user to the sudo group in order to be able to install programs and/or update/upgrade the system
Code:usermod -aG sudo my_user
rebooted the systemCode:systemctl reboot
Now I logged in with my regular user and edited sources.list file cause there wasn't a deb source for bullseye, I don't think this is the case for stable but I might be wrong though.
updated sources withand installed the packages I wanted toCode:sudo apt-get update
15 minutes later ...
The whole process took around 45 minutes.
Maybe you needed to install sudo first as I found I had to.