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Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd) wrote : Re: "Mark packages by task" missing from synaptic

It looks like this option is only available if tasksel is installed. See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1594928.

Since synaptic does not currently suggest or recommend tasksel, this needs to be installed separately, which might not be obvious.