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Re: utilities

From Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: utilities
Date 2018-09-25 17:00 +0200
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On Tue 25 Sep 2018 at 12:11:56 +0000, Matthew Crews wrote:

> On 9/25/18 2:08 AM, Thakur Mahashaya wrote:
> > Hi!
> > Please tell me what is the list of standard utilities in Debian?....wget, apt, curl, transport-https, sources.list, man, dd, sha256sum,......what else?
> > 
> 
> I took a peek at /usr/share/tasksel/descs/debian-tasks.desc, and this is
> what I see:
> 
> Task: standard
> Description: standard system utilities
>  This task sets up a basic user environment, providing a reasonably
>  small selection of services and tools usable on the command line.
> Packages: standard

Note the plural. This is not a package name but an instruction (for
want of a better word) to the installer to install packages of standard
priority.

> Section: user
> Test-new-install: mark skip
> 
> The standard system utilities task installs the package "standard"

No. See above.
 
> But apparently when I try to get details on this package:
> 
> matthew@matt-tower:~$ apt show standard
> N: Unable to locate package standard
> N: Unable to locate package standard
> E: No packages found
> 
> So I'm a little confused too.
> 
> Running tasksel on a running system, and I don't see an option for
> standard system utilities etiher.
> 
> Maybe this is a bug in the installer?

A guess: searching an installer image for Priority: standard packages
is quick. Searching the archives isn't.

-- 
Brian.

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utilities Thakur Mahashaya <thmsh@yandex.ru> - 2018-09-25 11:20 +0200
  Re: utilities mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2018-09-25 11:50 +0200
    Re: utilities Thakur Mahashaya <thmsh@yandex.ru> - 2018-09-25 12:10 +0200
  Re: utilities "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-09-25 11:50 +0200
    Re: utilities Thakur Mahashaya <thmsh@yandex.ru> - 2018-09-25 12:00 +0200
      Re: utilities Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-09-25 14:40 +0200
  Re: utilities Thakur Mahashaya <thmsh@yandex.ru> - 2018-09-25 13:30 +0200
  Re: utilities Matthew Crews <mailinglists@mattcrews.com> - 2018-09-25 14:20 +0200
    Re: utilities Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-09-25 17:00 +0200
      Re: utilities David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-09-25 17:40 +0200
  Re: utilities Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2018-09-25 16:00 +0200

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