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 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 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-from waypoint
Start the debconf-apt-progress bar here.
--debconf-apt-to waypoint
End the debconf-apt-progress bar here.
--debconf-apt-progress options
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