Command Line Interfaces

[Mario Vukelic]

On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 20:57 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> Ok, I understand that. Sorry, cannot help here since I haven't
> configured a console in ages. The other reply you received when you said
> "pretend I'm a Unix Geek ;)" was, "RTFM". I think that was pretty apt. I
> realize that the documentation directory has changed, so here it
> is: /usr/share/doc/console-tools
> It should get you started and even has examples.

LOL

>From /usr/share/doc/console-tools/README.Debian:

"The console-tools package is no longer maintained upstream, and is 
deprecated, being replaced by the 'kbd' package."


But it is used in Gutsy anyway:


aptitude show console-tools
Package: console-tools
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Version: 1:0.2.3dbs-65ubuntu5
Priority: important
Section: utils
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers
<ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
Uncompressed Size: 934k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.6-1), libconsole (= 1:0.2.3dbs-65ubuntu5), debconf
| debconf-2.0, lsb-base (>= 3.0-10)
Recommends: console-setup | console-data (>= 2002.12.04dbs-1),
console-setup | console-common
Suggests: kbd-compat
Conflicts: console-utilities, kbd (< 0.95-11), open, console-common (<
0.7.25)
Replaces: open, util-linux (< 2.11)
Provides: console-utilities, open
Description: Linux console and font utilities
 This package allows you to set-up and manipulate the Linux console (ie.
screen and keyboard), and manipulate console-font files."

So, we can look at console-setup with the same "aptitude show <package>"
command, and get some more info.

We can also use "dpkg -L <package>" to see the list of files it
installs. Configuration files are usually in /etc. And don't forget the
docs :)

Or, just google for the terms I suggested in my very first reply in this
thread, "grub vga modes ubuntu" and you will find plenty of information.