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 to user to select 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/*.desc and
/usr/local/share/tasksel/*.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