On Tuesday 30 June 2009 09:06:28 john lewis wrote: > On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:06:14 +0100 > > Lisi <hants...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > And the most recent installation of Lenny I did (last week) had > > neither K3b nor CUPS there by default in the Desktop packages. This > > is the first time that this has happened to me. There was no other > > CD burner so far as I could see. > > Hi Lisi > > I have never used or needed k3b or any other graphical tool for writing > CDs, Debian provides wodim, not sure if by default but aptitude install > will get it for you. I use it like this from a terminal > > wodim -v dev=/dev/cdrom speed=4 /home/jayell/downloads/*.iso > > > -- > John Lewis > using Debian Sid with windowmaker for a nicer desktop
Hi, John, Thanks for that. That will come in very useful. Sorting out how to burn CDs at the CLI is on my list of "to do"s but I hadn't yet got round to it. There are several things that I choose to do at the command line as a result of your help, and I really appreciate that help. But the case I mentioned was for someone else and the missing packages were only an "aptitude install" away. :-) It just seemed strange that things as basic as those had not been included as standard. Lisi -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
