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TASKSEL(8)		    Debian specific manpage		    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 packeges

       --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-from waypoint
	   Start the debconf-apt-progress bar here.

       --debconf-apt-to waypoint
	   End the debconf-apt-progress bar here.

       --debconf-apt-progress options
	   Pass the specified options to the debconf-apt-progress command that
	   tasksel runs. These will be appended to any --from and --to options
	   constructed by tasksel itself based on --debconf-apt-from and
	   --debconf-apt-to options.

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

2.73ubuntu26			  2009-06-11			    TASKSEL(8)
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