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