Lawrence H. Robins wrote: > I am (trying to be) a new Debian user. I have the 2.2r0 CD set > and got through most of the installation without a problem, but > near the end of the install, after installing the base system, > booting it, creating a root account and a user account, I > accidentally exited the "select tasks" program before making most > of the selections that I wanted, and now I can't figure out how > to restart this program.
Run "tasksel". > >From the install manual, section 7.24 "Select and Install Profiles": > >The system will now ask you if you want to use the pre-rolled > >software configurations offered by Debian. This is the purpose of > >the dselect program, described below. But this can be a long task > >with around 3950 packages available in Debian! > >So you have the ability to choose tasks or profiles instead. A task > >is a work you will do with the machine such as "Perl programming" or > >"HTML authoring" or "Chinese word processing". You can choose several > >tasks. > >......[paragraph skipped] > >Soon, you will enter into dselect. If you selected tasks or profiles, > >remember to skip the "Select" step of dselect, since the selections > >have already been made. This documentation seems thoroughly out of date, debian 2.1-era. -- see shy jo
