cdrecord-ProDVD

[Nobody's Hero]

ANyone know where I can download cdrecord-ProDVD that is ready to install on RH9.

[Huc_1]

I dont have such a best myself, but here a link to claims to have it ?

http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html

Hope this helps

J-P

[Patrick Van Humbeeck]

Hello,

I believe this is the official FTP site :

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/

Not sure if they have rpm's but the bins work great, no install needed.

Rgds,

Patrick

[Nobody's Hero]

OK, I downloaded the files as suggested. I am a novice linux user. Can someone instruct me on how to install the following file?

cdrecord-prodvd-2.01a12-i586-pc-linux-gnu

My system uses cdrecord, older version. I am trying to install the newer one with dvd support. How do I insure that when mondo runs, it uses the new cdrecord program and not the older one?

Help is appreciated, as always.

[Huc_1 · Accepted solution]

I said before I do not own this beast

but I downloaded the same file as your just to help out, now if login as root you do the command

#file cdrecord-prodvd-1.11b19-i586-pc-linux-gnu

you will see this is an executable.
so all you should have to do is replace the cdrecord executable with this new binary

first to find out where cdrecord is do

#find / -name cdrecord
or
# where cdrecord
once you know where cdrecord lives do something like (depends where you binary lives)

#mv /usr/bin/cdrecord /usr/bin/cdrecord_keep_old

this will rename/move your cdrecord binary to a safe for later if need be place.

now cp cdrecord-prodvd-1.11b19-i586-pc-linux-gnu from where you have saved it to /usr/bin/cdrecord like

#cp /tmp/cdrecord-prodvd-1.11b19-i586-pc-linux-gnu /usr/bin/cdrecord

now you should be able to testit with cdrecord command like

#cdrecord -version

if this works you are probably set , please note that you may have to modify /etc/cdrecord.conf to you setting

this should do it IF not just rm /usr/bin/cdrecord and mv /usr/bin/cdrecord_keep_old to /usr/bin/cdrecord

and you should be back to your old cdrecord setup

hope this is of some use to you

J-P

[Patrick Van Humbeeck]

just to add to what Huc said, you might need to set the executable perms on this file as it's usualy not set when you download it.
chmod u+x file

and maybe suid helps as well if you plan to burn cds/dvds as a non root user :
chmod u+s file