Rob:
OK, I tried the script this evening. I suppose I'm the perfect test idiot because I haven't touched this stuff in over a year and couldn't be more butter-fingered.

Installed Ubuntu Mate on the SD card and installed it in my Pi3. So good so far. Ran your commands to download your script and ran it. Seemed to run OK. I said yes to the VNC server and static IP stuff and said No to updating Firefox.

After it was all said and done, I have issues. Kstars is missing icons. I saw some posts on another thread about that, so I think I can resolve that issue if I'm on the right track there.

VNC server is running but I can't make it happy when I try to connect. It's telling me my user name or password are incorrect. I'm using the user name and password that the Pi uses for me to log on. Does it want something different?

Firefox isn't working.

I'm sure it's more than possible I screwed something up - it seems to be working for others. I'm going to re-install Ubuntu Mate fresh and try it again and see what happens. But I can say that it didn't do a fool-proof install for me, although it did get everything on the Pi as far as I can tell. I'm just having a couple issues that could easily be my fault.

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