Install Tasksel

First of all, You need to install tasksel package on your system, which is available under default package repositories for Debian systems. You can install it using apt-get simply.

Installing Packages with Tasksel

Let’s start using tasksel command. Go to command prompt type tasksel with sudo and press enter. This will list software package collections. Choose appropriate package collection and press Ok to install.

Also, you can directly specify the package name. This will work same as above without asking for selection.

List Packages with Tasksel

Use –list-task option to find out the list of packages collection available with tasksel. You will get a long list of packages group. Here are some quickly uses package groups. Visit here to read more about tasksel utility on Debian system.

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