tasksel

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 mode; don't actually install or remove packeges
"--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 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 outputs the extended description of the given task
"--debconf-apt-from Start the debconf-apt-progress bar here.
"--debconf-apt-to End the debconf-apt-progress bar here.
"--debconf-apt-progress 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.

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