Tasksel Installation System

Tasksel is an installation system that is an integral part of Debian installer. Its in Ubuntu too. Unlike apt-get or aptitude it doesn't install individual packages but group them as individual tasks e.g a lamp-server. Yes, you got it right we don't have to install mysql, php and apache individually anymore, just ask it to install lamp-server directly. Doesn't it make life easier. Keep on reading to find out more about Tasksel.

You won't have to install Tasksel. Its already included in the base installation. In order to find out what all tasks can be done using it run this command.

[shredder12]$ sudo tasksel

and you will see a window similar to this

The installed tasks will be marked by an asterisk. Adding and asterisk beside a task name will mark it for installation and removing one will mark the task for removal.

This method looks more or less as a gui method. But you can easily install the tasks using command line too. Say you want to install a lamp-server on you system. This is how you will do it.

[shredder12]$ sudo tasksel install lamp-server

In order to get a list of tasks you can use the following command

[shredder12]$ tasksel  --list-tasks

Check out rest of the tasksel option in its man page

[shredder12]$ man tasksel