Installing Kbd-1.08

Estimated build time:           0.1 SBU
Estimated required disk space:  12 MB

Contents of Kbd

(Last checked against version 1.08.)

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

Kbd Installation Dependencies

(Last checked against version 1.06.)

Bash: sh
Binutils: as, ld, strip
Bison: bison
Coreutils: cp, install, ln, mv, rm, uname
Diffutils: cmp
Flex: flex
GCC: cc1, collect2, cpp, gcc
Gettext: msgfmt, xgettext
Grep: grep
Gzip: gunzip, gzip
Make: make
Patch: patch
Sed: sed

Installation of Kbd

By default some of Kbd's utilities (setlogcons, setvesablank and getunimap) are not installed . The patch enables 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