On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 11:13:40AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 10:46:18 -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > On 1/13/25 08:03, Will Mengarini wrote: > > > I handle this kind of thing with the kbdrate program, which > > > is in the Debian package named 'kbd'. > > Please read Will's text again, more slowly. I've trimmed it down to > the relevant bit. > > Also, you can examine the list of files in a package. If the package > is installed, dpkg -L works. Otherwise, you can look on the web. > <https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/amd64/kbd/filelist> lists them, > for this particular case. >
If all else fails and someone gives you a package name that you're not familiar with use the apt-cache command to query details of the packages that are known to apt: apt-cache search kbd will give you packages that may relate to kbd apt-cache show kbd will give you information about the kbd package itself. > You've been using Debian long enough that you should know how to do > these things without needing this level of hand-holding. > Many of us have been using Debian long enough that the above should apply: somehow, someone somewhere is always in the ten thousand people who are hearing these things for the first time. https://xkcd.com/1053 It is also always possible that they know enough that a recent newly learned fact or command has pushed this out of of their short term or longer term memory. With every good wish, as ever, Andrew Cater (amaca...@debian.org)
