---
name: "tasksel"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "tasksel"
version: "3.81"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/tasksel"
---

# tasksel(8)

a user interface for installing tasks

## 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

  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.

## SEE ALSO

[**dpkg**(8)](/dpkg/8.md), [**apt-get**(8)](/apt-get/8.md)

## 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 \<tausq@debian.org\> and Joey Hess \<joeyh@debian.org\>

## HISTORY

This document first appeared with tasksel-1.0