Re: Basic collection of common command-line tools for Debian ?
On 12/25/25 12:59 PM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
Hi,
I'm currently writing a series of Ansible roles and playbooks to install
Debian Trixie on servers and desktops.
On RHEL-based systems you can use dnf group install Base to get a
reasonably complete set of command-line tools like vim, tree, man pages,
links, lynx, pinfo, etc.
What would be the Debian equivalent of that? Of course I can still try
to make a list of all the command-line tools I'm using in my daily work.
But before doing that I wonder if there isn't some easier way to do this.
Debian seems to have tasksel lists for various desktop environments. Is
there something similar for common command-line tools ?
Cheers,
Niki
Are you asking the RIGHT question?
Though a computer USER since the days of vacuum tube CPUs, I've never
heard of "Ansible roles and playbooks".\
I suspect the list of tools you're looking for would be "command line",
but I doubt that would be the selection criteria.
E.G. both forceps and monkey wrenches could be considered "hand tools".
Would you look for them in the same store.
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