05-22-2009
Which OS? In Linux it's one of
- apt-get install bc #Debian & derivates
- zypper install bc #OpenSuSE / SLES
- yum install bc #Red Hat / Fedora / CentOS
- emerge bc #Gentoo
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Hello everybody,
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I need help on arithmetic
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04
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
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 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 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-progress options
Pass the specified options to the debconf-apt-progress command that tasksel runs.
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
3.14.1 2012-08-27 TASKSEL(8)