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.
