I took everyone's advice and am giving k3b a try. I picked up a few DVD+R and DVD+RW discs (my drive supports both + and - protocols).
I installed k3b with aptitude (I'm running Sarge). I started it up, and it's giving me an error/warning message which I'm not sure how to fix. It says the following: Unable to find dvd+rw-format executable K3b uses dvd+rw-format to format DVD-RWs and DVD+RWs. Solution: Install the dvd+rw-tools package. According to aptitude I have dvd+rw-tools installed. I checked /usr/bin and I see dvd+rw-format listed. I started up K3bSetup2 and checked, /usr/bin is in the search path, yet it still can't find dvd+rw-format. I tried added /usr/bin/dvd+rw-format to the search path, still no luck. I tried searching through some of the past archived post from this group but didn't have much luck. I've only been receiving this list for a week or so, so I apologize if there is a known fix for this that everyone but me knows. :) Does anyone have any suggestions for me to get k3b full working? If I'm doomed and must use the console to burn cd-r, cd-rw, dvd-r, and dvd-rw's, does anyone have some linkage to a nice tutorial describing how to do it? Thanks so much for your thoughts. Ben On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 15:17:09 +0100, Maurits van Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 07:30:02AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > No command-line tools? Is k3b a frontend to something? > > k3b uses the command line cdrecord tool that does the real > burning. Here is the depends list for my version of k3b: > > Depends: k3blibs (>= 0.11.12), kdelibs4 (>= 4:3.2.3), libart-2.0-2 (>= > 2.3.16), libarts1 (>= 1.2.3), libasound2 (>> 1.0.5), libaudio2, > libaudiofile0 (>= 0.2.3-4), libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libesd0 (>= > 0.2.29-1) | libesd-alsa0 (>= 0.2.29-1), libfam0c102, libgcc1 (>= > 1:3.3.3-1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.4.1), libice6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), > libmad0 (>= 0.15.1b), libogg0 (>= 1.1.0), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.5.0-4), > libqt3c102-mt (>= 3:3.2.3), libsm6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libstdc++5 (>= > 1:3.3.3-1), libvorbis0a (>= 1.0.1), libvorbisfile3 (>= 1.0.1), > libx11-6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libxext6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libxrender1, > libxt6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1), cdrecord (>= > 4:2.0+a18-1), cdparanoia (>= 3a9.8), mkisofs (>= 1.10), kdelibs-data > (>= 4:3.1.4-2), kdebase-bin > > To the original poster: your program may be able to clone a data > cd/dvd if you provide it with an image file yourself. No touchy-feely > GUI interface, but there you go. :) Insert the cd you want copied. On > the command line type > > dd if=/dev/cdrom of=imagefile.iso > > where imagefile.iso should be on a partition where you have enough > free space to store a cd image. 700 MB should usually do it. See `man > dd' for more info. Now you should be able to burn that image file to a > blank cd with your tool. If it can't handle image files, you may need > to just copy the contents of the original cd/dvd to a new folder and > burn that one. > > -- > Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] > "Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." > - Winston Churchill > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]