Package: tasksel Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote: > Hi, > > I am building a Debian 3.0 system via dialup. The manpage for tasksel > states that you can issue the command 'tasksel install <taskname>'. I > looked in the task description file on my system and one of the tasks > is basic-desktop which is what I want to do but basic-desktop does not > appear on the tasksel selection menu. I tried 'tasksel install > basic-desktop' but got the tasksel selection menu. > > I don't want to choose the desktop option because I don't want KDE or > Gnome. Did I misunderstand the manpage? It seems that 'tasksel install' is broken. Just go into tasksel and select "X window system" (probably the first task listed); that is the user visible name for the basic-desktop task. -- see shy jo
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