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.