1. NAME▲
tasksel - a user interface for installing tasks
2. SYNOPSIS ▲
tasksel install <task>
tasksel remove <task>
tasksel [options]
3. DESCRIPTION ▲
tasksel shows all available tasks and allows to user to select ones to install
4. OPTIONS ▲
-t, --test 4 test mode; don't actually install or remove packeges
--new-install 4 automatically select some tasks without even displaying them to the user; default other tasks to on; used during new Debian installs.
--list-tasks 4 list on stdout the tasks that would be displayed in the tasksel interface
--task-packages task 4 lists on stdout the packages that are available and part of the given task .Sp Note that this option may be given more than once.
--task-desc task 4 outputs the extended description of the given task
--debconf-apt-progress options 4 Pass the specified options to the debconf-apt-progress command that tasksel runs.
5. SEE ALSO ▲
dpkg (8), apt-get (8)
6. FILES ▲
/usr/share/tasksel/*.desc and /usr/local/share/tasksel/*.desc are used to define tasks.
7. AUTHOR ▲
tasksel was written by Randolph Chung <> and Joey Hess <>
8. HISTORY ▲
This document first appeared with tasksel-1.0