Re: Every second year we are talking about a proper installer

[Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org>]

Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> writes:
>> As far as I understand the creation of the initial packages, it takes
>> everything that is marked as "Priority: important". However, I have am
>> not sure if this is correct.
>
> Ahh, OK.  I had assumed that it would be possible to call tasksel (may
> be with some proper options) to simulate this in a more simple way.

Simply put the .desc file on its place and do a

$ sudo tasksel --new-install -t

for the character based and

$ sudo debconf -fgnome tasksel --new-install -t

for the GUI.

Best

Ole