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ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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0008741 | Kali Linux | Feature Requests | public | 2024-04-29 15:51 | 2024-05-15 16:10 |
Reporter | vanguard | Assigned To | |||
Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | have not tried |
Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
Summary | 0008741: Please add package "console-data" to prebuilt ISO | ||||
Description | Dear maintainers, please allow me to repeat my beggage for adding the package "console-data" to your prebuilt ISO-images. Thus it makes it very easy, to change the keyboard layout using "loadkeys" (here for German "loadkeys de") Using console-setup and prior mentioned in another thread seupcon, does not work. Thank you for your help. Best regards Hans | ||||
Hello
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 |
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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. |
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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. Thank you for your help! Best Hans |
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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 |
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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. 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! |
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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. |
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Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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2024-04-29 15:51 | vanguard | New Issue | |
2024-04-30 13:37 | arnaudr | Note Added: 0019228 | |
2024-04-30 19:10 | vanguard | Note Added: 0019229 | |
2024-05-04 13:09 | vanguard | Note Added: 0019246 | |
2024-05-05 10:29 | daniruiz | Category | New Tool Requests => Feature Requests |
2024-05-07 04:16 | arnaudr | Note Added: 0019253 | |
2024-05-15 07:19 | arnaudr | Note Added: 0019294 | |
2024-05-15 16:10 | vanguard | Note Added: 0019297 |