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Re: k3b can't find cdrecord

From Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: k3b can't find cdrecord
Date 2016-12-28 19:10 +0100
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On 28/12/16 12:34 PM, Alberto Luaces wrote:
> Gary Dale writes:
>
>> I'm running Debian/Stretch AMD64 using plasma desktop and I'm trying
>> to burn a CD image. However when I start k3b, I get an error message
>> "unable to find cdrecord executable" along with the suggestion that I
>> install cdrtools. K3b refuses to burn the CD image.
>>
>> There is no package cdrtools but there was libcdr-tools. Unfortunately
>> installing that didn't help. Google was no help and neither was a
>> search of packages.debian.org.
>>
>> I realize optical media is passé these days, but I find it difficult
>> to believe that support for burning CDs has been dropped. What do I
>> have to do to get k3b to burn a CD?
>>
>>
> You can install wodim, this is what I use and it works fine.
>
Had wodim installed for a long time. One thing I find strange is that 
the k3b package still refers to cdrecord instead of to wodim since it 
appears to use wodim natively (locate doesn't find a cdrecord link to 
wodim).

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k3b can't find cdrecord Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> - 2016-12-28 18:30 +0100
  Re: k3b can't find cdrecord Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> - 2016-12-28 18:40 +0100
  Re: k3b can't find cdrecord Alberto Luaces <aluaces@udc.es> - 2016-12-28 18:40 +0100
    Re: k3b can't find cdrecord Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> - 2016-12-28 19:10 +0100
      Re: k3b can't find cdrecord Mark Neidorff <mark@neidorff.com> - 2017-01-04 16:30 +0100

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