Re: Package management
On Thu 02 Jul 2020 at 16:11:49 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 09:06:26PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> > On Thu 02 Jul 2020 at 15:50:30 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 01:07:42AM +0530, Baabu JOY wrote:
> > > > Hello debain organization
> > > > I'm babu.
> > > > Im trying to install all Deb files through single name
> > > >
> > > > Apt-get install multimedia
> > > > Multimedia need have all multimedia related packages ex : gstremer
> > > > ,alsa,ffmpeg,vlc etc..
> > >
> > > You could use tasksel instead.
> >
> > Is 'Apt-get install multimedia' a valid command?
>
> Obviously they're asking for the name of a package which can be
> substituted for the word "multimedia" in that command to achieve
> their desired effect. (And the capital A is wrong, but we all know
> that, and it's bad form to harp on it.)
But, for want of a better response, you could not resist commenting on
the typo. As you say - bad form. :)
> The closest thing to what they're asking for would be to run tasksel
> and select one of the tasks from it, or to figure out the task-*
> metapackage name that closely resembles what tasksel would do for each
> given task, and then install that package.
You haven't any suggestion to feed to tasksel?
--
Brian.
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