tasksel

tasksel install <task>

tasksel remove <task>

tasksel [options]

tasksel shows all available tasks and allows to user to select ones to install

-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-from waypoint

Start the debconf-apt-progress bar here.

--debconf-apt-to waypoint

End the debconf-apt-progress bar here.

--debconf-apt-progress options

Pass the specified options to the debconf-apt-progress command that tasksel runs. These will be appended to any --from and --to options constructed by tasksel itself based on --debconf-apt-from and --debconf-apt-to options.

dpkg(8), apt-get(8)

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

tasksel was written by Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org> and Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

This document first appeared with tasksel-1.0