Debian Change Keyboard Layout
I recently downloaded a virtual machine which had all the default factory settings in it – including an American keyboard layout. To change this on Debian Etch I simply used:
dpkg-reconfigure console-data
and then followed the online prompts. For reference (i.e. the next time I have this problem), the | (pipe) symbol on a US keyboard is mapped to the ~ (tilde) on a UK one.
On Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04), these instructions didn’t work and instead I followed the pointers in here: http://articles.slicehost.com/2008/4/25/ubuntu-hardy-setup-page-2
sudo locale-gen en_GB.UTF-8
…
sudo /usr/sbin/update-locale LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
Thanks for the explanation. Worked like a charm!
Menno: thanks for dropping in and updating that it worked for you, that’s cool!