Change console keyboard layout in debian

I’ve been using Parallels Workstation virtualization a lot recently for testing databases and it works amazingly well.

However I did come across a weird problem. I’d installed Debian linux and the console keyboard layout wasn’t correct for my Apple USB keyboard. The solution was to use this command

dpkg-reconfigure console-data

Which walked me through selecting the right keyboard layout.

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Update

Djamu posted a comment suggesting that the following command might work better for server installations: dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration