BLENDSEL(8)

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✨ BLENDSEL(8) ✨

okay bestie, so this is blendsel — a Debian-specific manpage, section 8, and she is the user interface for installing tasks (we're talking Debian pure blends here 💅). yes, the manual name is literally in the header, but I'm folding it in right here so you get the vibe upfront 🫶

🎀 NAME 🎀

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

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

blendsel install <task>
blendsel remove <task>
blendsel [options]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so blendsel shows you all the available blends and lets you pick which ones to install. that's it, that's the whole thing, and honestly? iconic 👑

💖 OPTIONS 💖

  • -t, --test — test mode bb 🧪 don't actually install or remove packages, we're just pretending.
  • --new-install — automatically selects some tasks without even displaying them to you (no vibe check, just vibes), and defaults the other tasks to on. this one gets used during new Debian installs ✨
  • --list-tasks — lists on stdout the tasks that would have been displayed in the blendsel interface. like a little sneak peek 👀
  • --task-packages task — lists on stdout the packages that are available and part of the given task.
lowkey important: this option may be given more than once 🔁
  • --task-desc task — outputs the extended description of the given task. the whole lore, bestie 📖
  • --debconf-apt-progress options — passes the specified options to the debconf-apt-progress command that blendsel runs. she's just relaying the message, no cap 💬

🌈 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. that's where the blend lore lives 🧚

💜 AUTHOR 💜

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

⭐ HISTORY ⭐

This document first appeared with blendsel-0.1. a true origin story 😭

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎀 this little number is version 0.12, dated 2026-07-26, brought to you by the Debian specific manpage crew — mwah, slay, go install some tasks 💅✨💖

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