Re: xkb error

[barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier)]

On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 04:59:17PM +0200, Aldo Maggi wrote:
> i regret to disturb you but i have a problem with xkb which cannot solve.
[...]
> in order to try to settle everything i decided to:
> first upgrade to sid, but this did not solve the question;
> second reinstall xfree (apt-get install --reinstall of all the
> relevant pkg's, lib's included)
> but the problem is still there
[...]

This is not enough because XKB files are conffiles and thus not
overwritten when reinstalling packages.  There are some options
to tell dpkg to overwrite existing files, but IIRC these options
were ignored when reinstalling packages at the same version number.
I ran instead:
  apt-get install -d --reinstall xlibs
  dpkg --purge --force-depends xlibs
  rm -rf /etc/X11/xkb
  dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.3.0.dfsg.1-12_all.deb
  apt-get install --reinstall xbase-clients
(The last command is to reinstall compiled/ and xkbcomp links under
/etc/X11/xkb)
But maybe there are simpler alternatives?

Denis