blendsel - a user interface for installing tasks (Debian pure blends)
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Description
blendsel shows all available blends and allows selecting ones to install
Files
/usr/share/blendsel/descs/*.desc and /usr/local/share/blendsel/descs/*.desc are used to define tasks.
History
This document first appeared with blendsel-0.1
0.10ubuntu1 2025-07-16 BLENDSEL(8)
Name
blendsel - a user interface for installing tasks (Debian pure blends)
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 blendsel 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 blendsel runs.
See Also
dpkg(8), apt-get(8)
Synopsis
blendsel install <task>
blendsel remove <task>
blendsel [options]
