NAME

       blendsel - a user interface for installing tasks (Debian pure blends)

SYNOPSIS

       blendsel install <task>

       blendsel remove <task>

       blendsel [options]

DESCRIPTION

       blendsel shows all available blends and allows selecting ones to install

OPTIONS

       -t, --test
           test mode; don't actually install or remove packages

       --new-install
           automatically  select some tasks without even displaying them to the user; default other tasks to on;
           used during new Debian installs.

       --list-tasks
           list on stdout the tasks that would be displayed in the blendsel interface

       --task-packages task
           lists on stdout the packages that are available and part of the given task

           Note that this option may be given more than once.

       --task-desc task
           outputs the extended description of the given task

       --debconf-apt-progress options
           Pass the specified options to the debconf-apt-progress command that blendsel runs.

SEE ALSO

       dpkg(8), apt-get(8)

FILES

       /usr/share/blendsel/descs/*.desc and /usr/local/share/blendsel/descs/*.desc are used to define tasks.

AUTHOR

       blendsel started as a copy of tasksel, which was written by Randolph Chung  <tausq@debian.org>  and  Joey
       Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

HISTORY

       This document first appeared with blendsel-0.1

0.10ubuntu1                                        2025-07-16                                        BLENDSEL(8)