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