6.42. Installing Kbd-1.08

6.42.1. Contents of Kbd

Kbd contains keytable files and keyboard utilities.

Installed programs: chvt, deallocvt, dumpkeys, fgconsole, getkeycodes, getunimap, kbd_mode, kbdrate, loadkeys, loadunimap, mapscrn, openvt, psfaddtable (link to psfxtable), psfgettable (link to psfxtable), psfstriptable (link to psfxtable), psfxtable, resizecons, setfont, setkeycodes, setleds, setlogcons, setmetamode, setvesablank, showconsolefont, showkey, unicode_start and unicode_stop

6.42.2.

6.42.3. Kbd Installation Dependencies

Kbd depends on: Bash, Binutils, Bison, Coreutils, Diffutils, Flex, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Gzip, M4, Make, Sed.

6.42.4.

6.42.5. Installation of Kbd

By default some of Kbd's utilities (setlogcons, setvesablank and getunimap) are not installed. First enable the compilation of these utilities:

patch -Np1 -i ../kbd-1.08-more-programs.patch

Now prepare Kbd for compilation:

./configure

Compile the package:

make

And install it:

make install