Install Different Types of Servers
According to ubuntu help section, tasksel is a command line application that can be used to install tasks. Here a task is nothing but meta package for other packages. Except that you can define your own tasks by editing the file /usr/share/tasksel/ubuntu-tasks.desc.
Tasksel presents curses based interface by default if you don't specify any command line arguments. Following are some of the predefined tasks you can install.
- dns-server
- edubuntu-server
- lamp-server
- ubuntu-desktop
- ubuntu-live
- mail-server
- openssh-server
- print-server
- samba-server
- myubuntu-desktop
- ubuntustudio-desktop
You can get complete list of tasks by executing following command.
tasksel --list-tasks
Here is the command to install any given task.
sudo tasksel install [task name]
Enjoy ubuntu :)
Comments
Ubuntu live DVD
What would that install? A ISO of it or what?
Is there a doc that says?
-Raymond Day
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Tasksel