Installing X-CD-Roast

[Daniel Sobey]

It does sound like a bug. I have not used x cd roast in years.
For burning cd's i would use k3b it is the best burner available.

On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 17:33 +1100, David Bowskill wrote: 
> Hello all.
> 
> 
> I have downloaded and installed X-CD-Roast from the Ubuntu software
> Center. On clicking the icon, I get the following message in a small window:
> 
> 
> "No root configuration file found or not readable!
> 
> The Superuser must start and configure X-CD-Roast first before other
> users can use it"
> 
> 
> So I activated a terminal:
> 
> 
> david at DJB-P4:/usr/bin$ ls -l ./xcdroast
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 702152 2009-04-08 08:18 ./xcdroast
> 
> 
> Then:
> 
> david at DJB-P4:/usr/bin$  ./xcdroast
> 
> 
> And got the same message as above.
> 
> 
> Then tried the following:-
> 
> david at DJB-P4:/usr/bin$ sudo ./xcdroast
> 
> [sudo] password for david:
> 
> 
> Then got the message below:-
> 
> ** (xcdroast:6300): WARNING **: Failed to access cdrecord. Please check
> the permissions and ownership of /usr/bin/cdrecord
> 
> 
> Checking /usr/bin/cdrecord:-
> 
> david at DJB-P4:/usr/bin$ ls -l /usr/bin/cdrecord
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 2009-11-06 18:39 /usr/bin/cdrecord -> wodim
> 
> 
> Then checking wodim:
> 
> 
> david at DJB-P4:/usr/bin$ ls -l ./wodim
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 395784 2009-10-03 08:14 ./wodim
> 
> 
> I cannot get past this point and cannot see what is wrong with the
> permissions or ownership.
> 
> 
> Can anybody help?
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> David Bowskill
> 
>