HOW-TO set up an experimental BL Boron system on Debian Bookworm.

johnraff · 2023-05-16 04:54:52

^Thanks for catching that!
fbxkb seems to have just been removed from Bookworm:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … ug=1035584

I'll take it out of the metapackage lists now, and re-upload so the metapackage install should work tomorrow.
EDIT: uploaded now, so it should be OK.

Alternatives are available.

Suggestions for replacements for fbxkb will be entertained.

Last edited by johnraff (2023-05-16 05:08:56)

dmontaine · 2023-05-16 14:57:32

A keyboard indicator is not used in the system tray, so do we even need one included in the default install?

DeepDayze · 2023-05-16 15:19:20

dmontaine wrote:

A keyboard indicator is not used in the system tray, so do we even need one included in the default install?

Agreed and haven't really seen one in use on the previous BL releases so perhaps leave it out for now at least.

jr2 · 2023-05-17 00:39:21

fbxkb was a legacy from CrunchBang, a very small package so it was left in, even though not used in BL. Now it's gone it's gone. If there are calls for a replacement then we could look for one.

DeepDayze · 2023-05-17 02:06:30

can it still be found in s.d.o? User will then have to manually grab and install that package and not sure how long it will work afterward anyway.

Last edited by DeepDayze (2023-05-17 02:07:22)

dmontaine · 2023-06-04 03:50:11

One other installation issue I ran into using this method with RC4: in /etc/apt/sources.list, the first line that references the installation media is not commented out and has to be manually modified - otherwise apt update fails unless the installation media is available.

johnraff · 2023-06-15 06:39:44

dmontaine wrote:

One other installation issue I ran into using this method with RC4: in /etc/apt/sources.list, the first line that references the installation media is not commented out and has to be manually modified - otherwise apt update fails unless the installation media is available.

This was RC4 of the Debian Installer? If so I guess it will have been fixed for the Bookworm release.

marjancinober · 2023-10-08 21:00:23

johnraff wrote:

^Thanks for catching that!
fbxkb seems to have just been removed from Bookworm:
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1035584
...
Suggestions for replacements for fbxkb will be entertained.

There is
packages.debian.org/bookworm/gxkb
with some flags missing, but that should be easy to fix, either at Bunsenlabs or individually.

johnraff · 2023-10-09 04:32:04

^Yes gxkb looks like a possible replacement. Thanks!

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