There is a very useful tool under Debian/Ubuntu GNU/Linux called tasksel, which can help us “convert” our Debian/Ubuntu between versions.
Install via apt-get/aptitude:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 | peter@peter-lab ~ $ sudo apt-get install tasksel [sudo] password for peter: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: tasksel-data The following NEW packages will be installed: tasksel tasksel-data 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 46 not upgraded. Need to get 36.0 kB of archives. After this operation, 385 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 http://ubuntu.mirror/ubuntu/ trusty/main tasksel-data all 2.88ubuntu15 [6,366 B] Get:2 http://ubuntu.mirror/ubuntu/ trusty/main tasksel all 2.88ubuntu15 [29.7 kB] Fetched 36.0 kB in 0s (363 kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously unselected package tasksel-data. (Reading database ... 229261 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../tasksel-data_2.88ubuntu15_all.deb ... Unpacking tasksel-data (2.88ubuntu15) ... Selecting previously unselected package tasksel. Preparing to unpack .../tasksel_2.88ubuntu15_all.deb ... Unpacking tasksel (2.88ubuntu15) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for menu (2.1.46ubuntu1) ... Setting up tasksel-data (2.88ubuntu15) ... Setting up tasksel (2.88ubuntu15) ... Processing triggers for menu (2.1.46ubuntu1) ... |
and run:
1 | peter@peter-lab ~ $ sudo tasksel |
It’ll show you a menu like this: