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TASKSEL

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Updated: 2023-05-25
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NAME

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

-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.

/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

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