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
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-t, --test -
test mode; don't actually install or remove packages
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--new-install -
automatically select some tasks without even displaying them to the user; default other tasks to on; used during new Debian installs.
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--list-tasks -
list on stdout the tasks that would be displayed in the tasksel interface
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--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.
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--task-desc task -
outputs the extended description of the given task
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--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.
--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).