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BLENDSEL

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
SEE ALSO
FILES
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NAME

blendsel - a user interface for installing tasks (Debian pure blends)

SYNOPSIS

blendsel install <task>

blendsel remove <task>

blendsel [options]

DESCRIPTION

blendsel shows all available blends and allows selecting ones to install

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)

FILES

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

AUTHOR

blendsel started as a copy of tasksel, which was written by Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org> and Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

HISTORY

This document first appeared with blendsel-0.1