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.