Re: What's wrong with tasksel?
Bill Wagner wrote:
>
> When I run tasksel (this is on testing/unstable) as root, I get this:
>
> juan:~# tasksel
> No tasks found on this system.
> Did you update your available file?
>
> If I do a 'tasksel -a', I get the menu, I select what needs to get
> selected, but it just says that it doesn't have anything to do:
>
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>
> I just ran 'apt-get dist-upgrade' after reading someone else's post the
> other day, but that didn't seem to help this particular issue.
>
> I'm new to Debian so I'm not familiar to which file tasksel is
> referring. Can anyone pass any info my way?
I think it uses dpkg, which needs a list of where to get or
download packages. Maybe you have no sources list. You can
create one by running dselect.
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