>>>>> "John" == John G Heim <jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
John> If you are going to install debian yourself, basically what
John> you want to do is to unselect the graphical user interface
John> when it gets to the page where you select software to
John> install. And then after you are finished with the install, use
John> apt to install the graphical user interface as a separate
John> step. I've done this many times myself but not for a year or
John> so and my memory is a little fuzzy. I think the gui (or it
John> might be called the desktop) is item 10 or 11 and it is
John> selected by default. You have to unselect it and then continue
This sounds rightish.
Also, Note that if you do the install with speech enabled, you are very
likely to have speech after the reboot.
John> John> with the install. After it finishes and you reboot, it will be
John> in character mode. I think you can then install the gui by
John> simply typing "apt-get install gnome-orca". That will install
John> orca, gnome, and all of their dependencies. You can then start
John> the gui by typing "startx".
That will sort of work, but you will get a remarkably broken gnome.
It turns out it's kind of challenging these days to get a desktop
without a display manager.
I might install and then disable the display display manager:
apt-get install gnome
systemctl disable gdm3
alternatively you can get some significant chunks of gnome with
apt-get install gnome-session libreoffice firefox libreoffice-gnome
gnome-orca
--Sam
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