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), apt-get(8)

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