On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 02:36:59AM +0900, Tatsuya Kinoshita wrote: > 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
# 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 # skkserv skkserv: opening shared dictionary "/usr/share/skk/SKK-JISYO" failed [1]# ls /usr/share/skk/SKK-JISYO ls: /usr/share/skk/SKK-JISYO: No such file or directory Still no luck... > > > 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 How are users to know that it is obsolete?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 - if "unstable" is not match, it is obsolete.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. OK. Perhaps the package description should mention that it is obsolete? > > 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. Thanks, that works for me! As an aside, I suppose that Emacs still doesn't do Unicode? I have configured my terminal to use Unicode, so it would be very nice to be able to use SKK to enter Japanese text while running Emacs in the terminal, rather than directly under X11. Frederik -- http://ofb.net/~frederik/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
