Le 25/12/2025 à 19:59, Nicolas Kovacs a écrit :
Hi,
I'm currently writing a series of Ansible roles and playbooks to install
Debian Trixie on servers and desktops.
On RHEL-based systems you can use dnf group install Base to get a
reasonably complete set of command-line tools like vim, tree, man pages,
links, lynx, pinfo, etc.
What would be the Debian equivalent of that? Of course I can still try
to make a list of all the command-line tools I'm using in my daily work.
But before doing that I wonder if there isn't some easier way to do this.
Debian seems to have tasksel lists for various desktop environments. Is
there something similar for common command-line tools ?
Cheers,
Niki
Hello Nicolas,
What Redhat calls package groups is roughly equivalent to what Debian
calls either tasks (https://packages.debian.org/trixie/tasks/) or
metapackages (https://packages.debian.org/trixie/metapackages/),
depending on their scope.
Debian Tasks and Metapackages are themselves packages, so you basically
install them like this:
apt install $WHATEVER_TASK_OR_METAPACKAGE
(and, yes, a task can also be installed via tasksel)
I have not seen a Debian metapackage that would satisfy your needs
(something like an extended busybox ore coreutils?), though, and Debian
tasks are either localized environments or whole desktop environments.
