To install french keyboard support in Debian-live(having to do this is a first problem, the boot menu choice having only partial effect), I searched out how with "man loadkeys". I understood that keymaps where missing so I've searched "keymaps" on the packages Website(https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=default§ion=all&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=keymaps). I get a list with 8 console-keymaps-* packages. But non of them can be installed via apt! I finally found the right virtual package with "aptitude search" but this inconstancy is abnormal, the online package search should be the mirror of the cli one

Hi,

Stephane Ascoet <stephaneascoet@users.sourceforge.net> wrote (Sun, 17 Oct 2021 10:49:15 +0000):
The packages you found via packages.debian.org are 'udeb' packages: special
packages to be only used by the debian-installer; they are not meant to be
installed on a usual Debian system.
That's why apt does not provide them to you for installation.


I agree, that this is not obvious to users/newcomers: at the search result
list, you only see


Paket console-keymaps-acorn
bullseye (stable) (debian-installer): keymaps for Acorn RISC-PC keyboards
2:1.12-8: all

Paket console-keymaps-amiga
bullseye (stable) (debian-installer): keymaps for Amiga keyboards
2:1.12-8: all

Paket console-keymaps-at
bullseye (stable) (debian-installer): keymaps for PC-style (PS/2 and AT) keyboards
2:1.12-8: all


and so on.

Users might overlook the "(debian-installer)" hint or don't understand its
meaning.


Holger

Le 17/10/2021 à 20:40, Holger Wansing a écrit :
Hi, and thanks for your answer. I noticed it but for me, the fact that
these packages are related to the installer doesn't mean that we
couldn't install them later. And there's another problem: the virtual
package "console-keymaps" I got in cli wasn't in this on-the-Web list!