04-25-2017
I always use VI when working on a unix or linux system doing either sys admin tasks, or software development tasks.
This is especially important since most all tasks above are done remotely. However, even on my local MacOS system, I still tend to use VI more often than not, on those types of tasks.
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Hello everybody,
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****
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/////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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LEARN ABOUT LINUX
tasksel
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
2.88ubuntu8 2010-07-16 TASKSEL(8)