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monster
Asked: 2012-05-08 06:18:05 +0800 CST

What is the Ubuntu command that allows you to specify what you will use the server for?

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When you install an Ubuntu server, you get a screen to choose if it should have OpenSSH, be a LAMP server, have visualization, ...

There is some console command that shows you the same menu. What is it called?

I have just spent the last 30 min googling all kind of combination of install and setup and configure and command-line without success.

So, to recap, I made a wrong choice in the installation screen, and I want to correct it without installing from scratch, and so I need that command so I can remove that what I don't want to have installed. Since I haven't explicitly chosen any package, the usual package deinstall command will not help. And since it's a server, I need to know the console command to do it.

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2 Answers

  1. tasksel, but all it does is some package-preselection, nothing you couldn't do with aptitude or something similar.

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  2. Best Answer

    The command you're looking for is tasksel.

    Run it as root (via sudo).

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