Re: Went Debian: Spanish Xkeyboard and other issues
rcanet@ivia.es wrote:
>On 22 Dec 00, at 9:06, Colin Watson wrote:
>> The task-spanish package is probably the best place to start.
>...snipped....
>
>Many thanks for your help, Colin.
>
>Task-spanish is supposedly installed, and "Spanish" indicated as
>language in all the concerning questions during the installation.
>When your Xkeyboard is asked during X configuration, Spanish is
>not offered in the list. First time, I selected "none" expecting to be
>able to correct that lately, but X refused to start. Next time I
>installed potato, selected "US-International" and could use the
>system at least. I hope this question will be easily solved by some
>Spanish Debian user (there are a few in the list, very helpful all of
>them).
Hmm. Not my field, I'm afraid. I know that you can use 'setxkbmap es'
(setxkbmap at least, what follows may be different) to change your X
keyboard map at run-time, but how to set it at startup varies a lot and
I don't really understand XKB. :) /etc/X11/XF86Config is certainly the
place to look, and 'man XF86Config' might explain the necessary things
if you dig deeply.
>The number of dependence problems which arose from my
>updating attempts was so high that it would be an abuse to bother
>the list with them. I've been adviced against unofficial woody CD-
>images, and maybe the problem is that I've got packages needing
>Gnome 1.0.5 which cannot be upgraded to the versions which
>would work with Gnome 1.2.
There could be conflicts of that form, yes. The newer versions might
well be in the unstable distribution; a *lot* of upgraded versions of
packages aren't in woody due to depending on glibc 2.2, which won't
build on all architectures yet.
dselect will give you details about conflicts, once you get used to it,
and of course assuming it doesn't segfault.
>There is one thing in your message, nonetheless, which surprises
>me: Mozilla M18 being in potato now. When I was preparing my
>migration to Debian, I was told in the group that there are not
>updates to potato (save security fixes). All updates go to woody,
>and I would never get gnome 1.2, XFree 4, KDE2, etc. for potato.
>Wasn't that true?
It was very close to true. The general rule is that stable releases such
as potato don't get any new code, only critical bug fixes like security
updates. However, when the first (I think, or maybe the second) point
release of potato was being prepared, the release manager said that he
thought it would be nice to put in a very few new or much-improved
packages that lots of people want, provided absolutely that they're
standalone and that they don't break anything else. The things you
mention are right out: they're large, complex, and lots of stuff depends
on them. mozilla M18 was selected for inclusion, though, as I believe
was console-apt.
>Finally, I believe I'm going to freshly install potato to start from a
>"brand new" system, and will try to upgrade packages step by step
>using dselect. I've been trying it, and it's daunting, since debian
>packages are quite different from RedHat's, but I believe I'll manage.
OK. Best of luck!
--
Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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