any shortcut to install all dev-related packages?

[Tom H]

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>   i just found the task definition file
> /usr/share/tasksel/ubuntu-tasks.desc, but i'm disappointed that
> there's no "task" to turn my stock 10.04 laptop into a development
> workstation -- that is, installing the various compilers,
> interpreters, linkers, autotools packages, version control tools and
> so on.
>
> is there a meta-install incantation for that?  or do i have to pick
> and choose?  thanks.

The closest that I know to RHEL's
yum groupinstall "Development Tools" "Development Libraries"
is
aptitude install build-essential
to which you might need to add some libraries.

By the way, you can lists the tasksel tasks with
tasksel --list-tasks