tasksel(8)

tasksel8

A user interface for installing tasks

Usage

tasksel install <task>

tasksel remove <task>

tasksel [options]

Overview

tasksel shows all available tasks and allows selecting ones to install

Options

-t, --test

test mode; don't actually install or remove packages

--new-install

automatically select some tasks without even displaying them to the user; default other tasks to on; used during new Debian installs.

--list-tasks

list on stdout the tasks that would be displayed in the tasksel interface

--task-packages task

lists on stdout the packages that are available and part of the given task

Note that this option may be given more than once.

--task-desc task

outputs the extended description of the given task

--debconf-apt-progress options

Pass the specified options to the debconf-apt-progress command that tasksel runs.

Files

/usr/share/tasksel/descs/*.desc and /usr/local/share/tasksel/descs/*.desc are used to define tasks.

Releases

13 releases since Debian 2.2 (Potato); the text changed 12 times.

  1. 2.2
  2. 3.0
  3. 3.1
  4. 4.0
  5. 5.0
  6. 6.0
  7. 7
  8. 8
  9. 9
  10. 10
  11. 11
  12. 12
  13. 13

--debconf-apt-progress since Debian 4.0 (Etch); --list-tasks since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --new-install since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --task-desc since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --task-packages since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --test since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -t since Debian 3.1 (Sarge).

--important until Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --no-ui until Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --required until Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --standard until Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -i until Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -n until Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -r until Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -s until Debian 3.1 (Sarge).

Author

tasksel was written by Randolph Chung <[email protected]> and Joey Hess <[email protected]>

History

This document first appeared with tasksel-1.0

From tasksel 3.81 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.