Shouldn't tasksel be installed by default?

Question

It just isn't there on the base install of a virtual host I am evaluating from an ISP.

Not in path:

root@vpstest2:~# tasksel       
-bash: tasksel: command not found

Config files not there:

root@vpstest2:~# ls /usr/share/tas*
ls: cannot access /usr/share/tas*: No such file or directory

It's just .... gone!

root@vpstest2:~# whereis tasksel
tasksel:

I'm a little concerned that the install is broken. Running locate spews this out:

locate: can not stat () `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db': No such file or directory

Solution

According to the server manifest it is installed by default. It must have been removed at some point in your install perhaps? To reinstall it:

sudo apt-get install tasksel

The second error is probably because you haven't run updatedb yet:

sudo updatedb