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Re: Package management

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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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Package management Baabu JOY <baabu3e@gmail.com> - 2020-07-02 21:40 +0200
  Re: Package management Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-02 22:00 +0200
    Re: Package management Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-07-02 22:10 +0200
      Re: Package management Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-02 22:20 +0200
        Re: Package management Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-07-03 01:00 +0200
          Re: Package management <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-03 09:30 +0200
            Re: Package management Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2020-07-03 19:40 +0200
              Re: Package management Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-07-03 20:50 +0200
                Re: Package management <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-03 22:20 +0200
                Re: Package management <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-03 23:00 +0200
                Re: Package management Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-07-04 00:40 +0200
                Re: Package management Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-07-03 23:00 +0200
  Re: Package management didier.gaumet@gmail.com - 2020-07-03 11:00 +0200
    Re: Package management didier.gaumet@gmail.com - 2020-07-03 13:20 +0200
  Re: Package management l0f4r0@tuta.io - 2020-07-03 12:20 +0200
    Re: Package management rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-07-03 12:40 +0200
      Re: Package management David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-07-03 16:40 +0200
        Re: Package management rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-07-03 17:30 +0200
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