TASKSEL(8)

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 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.

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