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/