ubuntu snippets

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 :)