NAME
tasksel - a user interface for installing tasks
SYNOPSIS
tasksel install <task>
tasksel remove <task>
tasksel [options]
DESCRIPTION
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
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outputs the extended description of the given task
- --debconf-apt-progress options
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Pass the specified options to the debconf-apt-progress command that tasksel runs.
SEE ALSO
FILES
/usr/share/tasksel/descs/*.desc and /usr/local/share/tasksel/descs/*.desc are used to define tasks.
AUTHOR
tasksel was written by Randolph Chung <[email protected]> and Joey Hess <[email protected]>
HISTORY
This document first appeared with tasksel-1.0