Installing the full desktop

[Liam Proven]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 at 18:28, Keith <keith at caramail.com> wrote:
>
> Just install the appropriate metapackage that has dependencies to all
> the necessary components that comprise the full desktop that you want.

Well, yes, I knew that much. :-)

> In 20.04 its the "gnome" metapackage:

Aha! That is the key info. Thank you! :-)
>
> For complete Ubuntu, it would be "ubuntu-desktop"

Tried that. It was already there.

>  for MATE, its either
> mate-desktop-environment or ubuntu-mate-desktop.

I haven't tried a minimal install of that yet. I had a look yesterday
but it just reminded me why I don't like MATE much. Better than GNOME
3, definitely, but for me, Xfce works better.

Saying that, I'm still a loyal Unity user. :-)

>  You would have to
> examine the dependencies to see what either metapackage pulls in. Same
> with KDE and other desktop flavors.

I did, but there are quite a few options:

- gnome
- ubuntu-desktop
- ubuntu-gnome-desktop
- vanilla-gnome-desktop

It's not clear which does what or what the differences are.

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