[NTLUG:Discuss] X-CD-Roast

[Kelledin]

On Monday 13 May 2002 07:07 pm, you wrote:
> OK I down loaded the rpm's for X-CD-Roast and used the command
> rpm -U cdrtools*.rpm
> and
> rpm -U xcdroast*.rpm
> to install.
> not much happened.
> Did I install them or what.
> I feel dumb not being able to install a new program and use it.

The setup of X-CD-Roast (after installation) is slightly complicated.

First, start X and open up an xterm.

If you're not logged in as root, run "xhost localhost && su" to gain root 
privileges.  Then run "xcdroast", taking note of any warnings it prints out 
in your xterm.

The X-CDRoast dialog window should now be up.  Setting up which device to use 
for burning and other burning options should be fairly intuitive; once this 
is done, you should always be able to burn CD's, assuming that you have root 
privileges.

With a little work, you should also be able to set up X-CDRoast to allow 
non-root users to burn CDs.  Information on how to do this should be detailed 
in /usr/doc/xcdroast*/README.nonroot, assuming that file exists.  If it 
doesn't, I can post it as an attachment.