this is what I did to get through to install xkb-data:
download of the 386 build of xkb-data_1.1 latest version here:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xkeyboard-config/1.1~cvs.20080104.1-1ubuntu8/+build/746196
Then did a simple dpkg -i on it. This did the trick.
Please note that the
Dear Michael Vogt,
I got the same error when upgrading from 6.06 LTS to 8.04 LTS. Can you
explain in detail on how to get the upgrade through? I don't understand
how to:
* preinst:
- when upgrading from hardy, check the conffiles against
xkeyboard-config not xkb-data (was not
Follow up ---sudo aptitude -f reinstall locales
fixed it ;--- to an extent followed by usual sudo aptitude updata and
upgrade
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dapper-hardy missing files on upgrade
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/213566
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Hi,
I still get get error code 1 message
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = en_GB:en,
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = en_GB.UTF-8
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling
There are a number of bugs in this transition it seems.
1. xkb-data querry for conffiles in xkb-data on dapper upgrades, but back then
the package that had the conffile was xkeyboard-config
2. the transitional package xkeyboard-config is in universe, that is not
helpful, it needs to be in main
This bug was fixed in the package xkeyboard-config -
1.1~cvs.20080104.1-1ubuntu5
---
xkeyboard-config (1.1~cvs.20080104.1-1ubuntu5) hardy; urgency=low
* preinst:
- when upgrading from hardy, check the conffiles against
xkeyboard-config not xkb-data (was not available back
Is https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/213973 duplicate of this bug
or related?
ls -l /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules gives me same short list.
** Changed in: xkeyboard-config (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
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dapper-hardy missing files on upgrade
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/213566
The upgrade logs contains the following lines:
Selecting previously deselected package xkb-data.
Unpacking xkb-data (from .../xkb-
data_1.1~cvs.20080104.1-1ubuntu3_all.deb) ...
WARNING: /etc/X11/xkb/compat had local changes! XKB configuration has
moved to /usr/share/X11/xkb. Preserving as
There is an interesting bit in xkeyboard-config/debian/preinst fiddling
with the symlinks:
for link in xfree86 xfree86.lst xfree86.xml xorg xorg.lst xorg.xml;
do
rm -f /etc/X11/xkb/rules/$link
done
Perhaps the above is getting run on upgrade, but the
