Re: K3B cannot find cdrecord, cdrdao and growisofs

"Renaud (Ron) Olgiati" <renaud-9qJ39Kf4vhh95CE/QLhGvQK61p16E/[email protected]> Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:07:26 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.mandrake.expert
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thursday 16 Jun 2011 10:06 my mailbox was graced by a message from Jim 
Beard who wrote:
> > Following an install of 2010.2 I have tried to burn a DVD with K3B; I get
> > an error that it cannot find the cdrecord,  cdrdao and  growisofs execs;
> > yet those are installed, and in the normal place.

> Check the symbolic links in /usr/bin and /etc/alternatives.
> Better yet, download and install the software Mandriva should use rather
> than the ill-maintained wodim.
> http://www.ody.ca/~dwhodgins/installcdrtools

Worked, thank you; the problem, now, is that while the main K3B window 
displays the empty DVD-R, the "Burn" window" insists that there is no medium 
in the drive, and wants me to insert one .

Aaaaaargh !
 
Cheers,
 
Ron.
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