On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 07:57:21PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote:
> Ken Weingold wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 10, 2000, Nate Amsden wrote:
> > > Ken Weingold wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I want to go into dselect now and install the system since I only have
> > > > a very base system. Wasn't there some sort of categories that would
> > > > install a recommended set of packages so I don't have to manually go
> > > > through every package in the list? I thought I remembered categories
> > > > like workstation, development system, server, etc. I've looked
> > > > through the documentation but haven't see anything about it.
> > >
> > > apt-get install tasksel
> > >
> > > i believe thats what yer lookin for.
> >
> > Kind of, thanks. But I remember something even more general, like I
> > could select Workstation, and it would install a whole bunch of
> > packages that one might want, like editors, X, Internet stuff, etc.
>
> hmm, never heard of anything like that in debian's installation ....sure
> your not thinking of redhat or mandrake or something ?
>
Take a look at -
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
kent
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