Dave Lers wrote: > Ken Heard wrote: >> the bloat however comes from installation of a DE; I deliberately >> did >> not install any of the DEs favoured by Debian. Consequently I had >> to >> install the x-window-system before installing the DE of my choice. > > Installing X is not necessary. You can sftp to edit sources (tee -a > /etc/apt/sources.list <<EOF...EOF is easier than manually editing) > and add the key, aptitude install tdebase-trinity will do the rest. s/sftp/use ssh/