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I need to change layout of keyboard while working in console in Linux. I need to setup English layout as default for console. How to do it?

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What distro are you using? – emzero Mar 24 '12 at 23:31
Ubuntu, logged under root – RCola Mar 24 '12 at 23:37
"loadkeys us" worked! How to make it default layout? – RCola Mar 24 '12 at 23:42

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To change the system-wide keyboard layout, run

sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

or edit the XKBLAYOUT line in /etc/default/keyboard.

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Put it in /etc/profile.d/bashrc

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another way, but I understand it wont last for next boot:

sudo loadkeys /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.kmap.gz

check /usr/share/keymaps/i386/ for you keyboard layout and keymaps to what suits you better

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