{"id":176,"date":"2006-05-02T18:11:48","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T17:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/?p=176"},"modified":"2025-02-01T03:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T03:04:16","slug":"change-console-keyboard-layout-in-debian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/2006\/05\/02\/change-console-keyboard-layout-in-debian\/","title":{"rendered":"Change console keyboard layout in debian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parallels.com\/\">Parallels Workstation<\/a> virtualization a lot recently for testing databases and it works amazingly well.<\/p>\n<p>However I did come across a weird problem. I&#8217;d installed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debian.org\">Debian linux<\/a> and the console keyboard layout wasn&#8217;t correct for my Apple USB keyboard.<br \/>\nThe solution was to use this command<\/p>\n<p><code>dpkg-reconfigure console-data<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Which walked me through selecting the right keyboard layout.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/lists.debian.org\/debian-user\/2003\/10\/msg05790.html\">link<\/a>]<\/p>\n<h3>Update<\/h3>\n<p>Djamu posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/2006\/05\/02\/change-console-keyboard-layout-in-debian\/comment-page-1\/#comment-24885\">comment<\/a> suggesting that the following command might work better for server installations:<br \/>\n<code><br \/>\ndpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;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&#8217;d installed Debian linux and the console keyboard layout wasn&#8217;t correct for my Apple USB keyboard. The solution was to use this command dpkg-reconfigure console-data Which walked me through selecting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-macintosh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1511,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/1511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}