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#1 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 07:11 AM

Gotten my Gentoo workstation up and running, only one problem to go:

I use K3B for CD-burning and that part works great, but I cannot burn
DVDs....

Any session always dies with ther following error:

Could not find growisofs executable.

Tried to download a file, put it in /ust/local/bin and chmod +x it, but
that does not work very well. (no surprise)

Is there a package that contains this package? Anyone else that have had
this problem?

Any suggestions will be highly appreciated.

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/ray

#2 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 07:11 AM

Raymond Baastad <raymond@*spamblock*baastad.net> writes:

> Could not find growisofs executable.
> Is there a package that contains this package?

Try emerging app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools. I don't have a dvd writer
so I'm not sure it's what you need.

For future reference I spent about four minutes coming up with
the suggestion above.

Here is how I did it:

1. I searched google for 'growisofs' and found lots of hits.
2. The second hit contained the phrase "growisofs (from
dvd+rw-tools)" so I asked myself: does gentoo have a
package for 'dvd+rw-tools' ?
3. ls -d /usr/portage/*/dvd* gave me the answer in seconds ;o)

Try step 3 and see what you get. If you don't know what the
-d flag means then 'man ls' will tell you.

Good hunting!

#3 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 07:11 AM

Raymond Baastad enlightened us with:
> Gotten my Gentoo workstation up and running, only one problem to go: I
> use K3B for CD-burning and that part works great, but I cannot burn
> DVDs....
>
> Any session always dies with ther following error: Could not find
> growisofs executable.

Make sure you have 'dvdr' in your USE flags. Then re-emerge k3b and you
should be set.

Sybren
--
The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

#4 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 07:12 AM

walt wrote:

> 1. I searched google for 'growisofs' and found lots of hits.
> 2. The second hit contained the phrase "growisofs (from
> dvd+rw-tools)" so I asked myself: does gentoo have a
> package for 'dvd+rw-tools' ?
> 3. ls -d /usr/portage/*/dvd* gave me the answer in seconds ;o)

Thanks, found it, emerged it and it worked brautifully :-)

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