On January 21, 2007 at 4:15PM +0000, frederik (at a5.repetae.net) wrote: > > By default, `/usr/share/skk/SKK-JISYO' is provided by the skkdic > > package with symlinks of the altenatives system, linked to > > `/usr/share/skk/SKK-JISYO.L'. `update-alternatives --config SKK-JISYO' > > might fix your broken symlinks. > > It looks like this is not the case: [...] > | $ ls /usr/share/skk/SKK-JISYO > | ls: /usr/share/skk/SKK-JISYO: No such file or directory > > As per my bug report, it seems that skkserv won't start, and it > complains that the above file '/usr/share/skk/SKK-JISYO' is missing.
Ah, sorry, my suggestion is not correct. I don't know why the symlink was removed, but the following command should fix the problem. # update-alternatives --remove SKK-JISYO /usr/share/skk/SKK-JISYO.L # update-alternatives --install /usr/share/skk/SKK-JISYO SKK-JISYO /usr/share/skk/SKK-JISYO.L 60 > > BTW, skkserv has already been removed from Debian unstable/testing. > > For Debian Etch and later, please use dbskkd-cdb or skksearch, and > > also install skkdic-cdb. > > I don't understand. The skkserv packages has a field: > > Replaces: dbskkd-cdb, skksearch > > Are you saying that skkserv is also replaced by dbskkd-cdb and > skksearch? Yes, you can choose one of them which provides the skkserv feature. > How are users to know that it is obsolete? Maybe there is no standard way, not only skkserv... My quick hack for Debian unstable is - check timestamp of /usr/share/doc/* - check old packages with downloading http://packages.debian.org/PACKAGE - if "unstable" is not match, it is obsolete. To use Debian stable upgrading from old-stable, non-upgraded packages should be checked whether the packages are in stable or not. > I don't know > anything about these software packages, I was only trying to set up > Emacs so that I can type in Japanese, which seemed to be much less > difficult several years ago. To input Japanese characters with SKK on Emacs, `apt-get install emacs21 ddskk dbskkd-cdb' and see `/usr/share/doc/ddskk/README.Debian' to setup and tutorial. -- Tatsuya Kinoshita
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