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tasksel - a user interface for installing tasks

Author

       tasksel was written by Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org> and Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

Description

       tasksel shows all available tasks and allows selecting ones to install

Files

/usr/share/tasksel/descs/*.desc and /usr/local/share/tasksel/descs/*.desc are used to define tasks.

History

       This document first appeared with tasksel-1.0

3.82ubuntu1                                        2025-08-15                                         TASKSEL(8)

Name

       tasksel - a user interface for installing tasks

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)

Synopsis

       tasksel install <task>

       tasksel remove <task>

       tasksel [options]

See Also