Hello

adding the package "console-data" to your prebuilt ISO-images.

Are you talking about the live iso? Or installer iso? I can have a look, it seems it's a small package. Do you know if it's pre-installed on eg. Ubuntu ISOs or Debian ISOs?

Thanks

It is the installer ISO.

Howeer, I suggest, to put in both, thus it makes easy, to change keyboard layout with just a simple command, for all languages, not only German.

Checked again. I am using the kali-live-ISO. The splitting of installer and live is new and I always use the live-iso for building my own iso. But I always have to install console.data first, when working with it.
So, it would be nice, if this package could just be added in the next release. It should not be much work, to add an entry for this package.

Thank you for your help!

Best

Hans

Looking a bit closer. I can reproduce the issue, and indeed console-data needs to be installed. However I'm a bit surprised that the command loadkeys (provided by the package kbd) comes broken by default.

I filed a bug to try to clarify the matter: https://bugs.debian.org/1070679

I did more tests, found 2 things.

First, adding "console-data" to the installer is not that straightforward. The debian-installer is a special world of its own, you don't install .deb packages, you can only install .udeb packages. console-data doesn't exist as a .udeb.

Second, I found out that there is really no need for it. Let's say I boot the live ISO and select "Start Installer", then I choose "Language: whatever", then "Location: whatever" and then... "Keyboard: german". Then the debian installer configures the system, and after this point the keyboard layout is indeed German. I can hit Ctrl+Alt+F2 to open a console, and I can confirm that it's the German keyboard layout that is active.

So it seems to work and to be straightforward enough. Can you try on your side? Thanks!

Ok, no problem. The installer ist not much important. However, more important IMHO is the live-iso. Here it should be easy to add the package.

When I am building for my own, I added it in the package list (additional to all the other packages I want to have on my live-system).

But when i download the official live-iso (notthe installer one) it is missing. So it would be nice, if it could be added to this one.

Thanks in advance.