On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 09:06:26PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Thu 02 Jul 2020 at 15:50:30 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 01:07:42AM +0530, Baabu JOY wrote: > > > Hello debain organization > > > I'm babu. > > > Im trying to install all Deb files through single name > > > > > > Apt-get install multimedia > > > Multimedia need have all multimedia related packages ex : gstremer > > > ,alsa,ffmpeg,vlc etc.. > > > > You could use tasksel instead. > > Is 'Apt-get install multimedia' a valid command?
Obviously they're asking for the name of a package which can be substituted for the word "multimedia" in that command to achieve their desired effect. (And the capital A is wrong, but we all know that, and it's bad form to harp on it.) The closest thing to what they're asking for would be to run tasksel and select one of the tasks from it, or to figure out the task-* metapackage name that closely resembles what tasksel would do for each given task, and then install that package. Using tasksel seems like the better answer in this case, because this is clearly not an experienced Debian user. If they gave signs that they had any clue what they're doing, then it might be appropriate to give a more sophisticated answer, like "use equivs to generate a local package that Depends: on all of the things you want, and then install that on each of your target machines". But they didn't, so "tasksel".
