To set the font in my framebuffer console, I'd like to use kbd, as the consolechars command that comes with console-tools seems to only work with 8-pixel wide fonts [1]. I find `consolechars -f` is unable to load a majority of the fonts in /usr/share/consolefonts.

A while back on an earlier grml (don't recall exactly which version), I replaced console-tools with kbd and was then able to load any font in /usr/share/consolefonts using the setfont command.

Now (grml2008.11 installed to hd) when I try to install kbd, aptitude wants to remove grml, grml-autoconfig & grml2hd [2]. I don't need grml2hd, but removal of grml is problematic, as this in turn tries to remove lots of other things as well.

Is there a recommended way to replace console-tools with kbd?

TIA for any help,

John

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[1] --- In these two cases the fonts loaded fine: /usr/share/consolefonts % consolechars -f koi8-14.psf.gz /usr/share/consolefonts % consolechars -f Lat7-Terminus16.psf.gz

But in this case, got an error: /usr/share/consolefonts % consolechars -f Lat7-Terminus24x12.psf.gz Cannot (yet) load a non-seekable RAW file read_simple_font(): Invalid argument

Tried uncompressing the font file & loading that: /usr/share/consolefonts % consolechars -f Lat7-Terminus24x12_gunzipped.psf read_simple_font(): Bad font file format

[2] --- 34507 ~ % sudo aptitude install kbd Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done The following packages are BROKEN: grml-autoconfig kbd-compat The following NEW packages will be installed: kbd The following packages will be REMOVED: console-tools{a} 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1432 not upgraded. Need to get 423kB of archives. After unpacking 610kB will be used. The following packages have unmet dependencies: grml-autoconfig: Depends: console-tools but it is not installable kbd-compat: Depends: console-tools (>= 1:0.2.3dbs-65.1) but it is not installable Conflicts: kbd but 1.15-1 is to be installed. The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Remove the following packages: grml grml-autoconfig grml2hd kbd-compat

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