Re: xkb-data: Help needed for Macintosh keyboards

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

Thanks for this more detailed information.

On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 10:48:15PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> 3. How to install it?
>    ==================
> 
> Sid users can install it directly.  As it has not been tested at all,
> your X server may hang up or your keyboard may be fully broken, so do
> not proceed like this unless you know what you are doing ;)
> 
> A less disruptive way is to unpack this package into a temporary
> directory, and call setxkbmap from this directory:
>  $ dpkg -x xkb-data_0.8-8exp1_all.deb /tmp/xkb
>  $ cd /tmp/xkb/usr/share/X11/xkb
>  $ setxkbmap -print | xkbcomp - :0
> (warnings can be ignored)
> This option should also work for any Debian-based distribution with
> X.Org 7.0.

So, folk running sarge will not be able to make this experiment, right ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther