| | | X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha15 | | | | 30.10.2003 T. Niederreiter | | |
This is only a maintainance release, therefore no real new features yet.
Whats new:
- optional GTK2 support, thanks to Fritz Ganter for his help.
- updated lot of translations, added romanian, latvian and albanian.
- numerous bug fixes.
- included a contrib-directory with the sources with some useful stuff sent to me by X-CD-Roast users.
See the file ChangeLog for a complete list of changes.
A recent release of the cdrtools is required. Version 2.0 or newer is recommended. 2.01a14 or newer for audio-on-the-fly support.
This release is very friendly to distribution-vendors. In the RPM version there are no longer any suid/sgid-bits set or any groups created. No need to disable non-root mode now before including X-CD-Roast to your distribution. The check for the cdrecord tools also accepts now silently newer versions.
For news see:
Some features:
- Portable - runs on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, HPUX, Irix, AIX ...
- Multi langual - translations available in 28 languages
- Graphical setup
- Graphical wav-player
- Fully themeable via GTK-Themes
- Tooltip help
- Copies Data, Audio, Mixed-Modes
- Creates Data, Audio, Mixed-Mode, Multisession
- Bootable CD support
- CD-Text
- CDDB-support via HTTP/Proxy or native
- Copy/Master Data and Audio-CDs on the fly
- Administration mode for usage in computer pools
- Data-DVD writing (DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW) - experimental DVD-Video support
- Drag&Drop
- Networked device support (Remote-SCSI)
Features planned for the next releases:
- MP3/OGG encoding/decoding
- Clone-Mode
- ISO-file browser
- mkisofs HFS support
System-Requirements:
BIG NOTE: On recent Linux-distributions ALL the following libraries are
included! There is NO need to download that stuff and install
yourself. Do use the things that are on your Linux-CDs!
The only package you might need to get is cdrtools-1.11a40
(or newer).
SuSE-Users please note: X-CD-Roast requires the gdk-pixbuf
library which is not installed by default on many SuSE-
installations. Just insert your CDs and install it using YaST.
Be sure to have the DEVELOPMENT versions of the libraries
installed. (marked with -dev oder -devel on the RPMs filenames)
Otherwise you will fail to compile any program.
This is also true for the X-development libraries.
- glib-1.2.3 and gtk+-1.2.3 (or newer, current version is 1.2.10)
(ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gtk/v1.2/glib-1.2.10.tar.gz) (ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gtk/v1.2/gtk+-1.2.10.tar.gz)
or alternatively GTK+-2.2.x (compile with --enable-gtk2 in that case)
NOTE about GTK on solaris:
GTK must be installed in /lib or /usr/lib on solaris in order
to work. A setting in LD_LIBRARY_PATH is ignored.
- libgif or libungif
(http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/libs/graphics/libungif-4.1.0.tar.gz)
- libz/libpng
(http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/src/zlib-1.1.4.tar.gz) (http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/src/libpng-1.0.15.tar.gz)
- gdk-pixbuf-0.8.0 (or newer, current version is 0.21.0)
(ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gdk-pixbuf/0.21/gdk-pixbuf-0.21.0.tar.gz) (not required for GTK2)
- cdrtools-2.0 (or newer)
(which includes cdrecord, mkisofs, cdda2wav, readcd)
(ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/cdrtools-2.00.3.tar.gz)
- Installation
- Install glib, gtk, lib[un]gif, libz, libpng, gdk-pixbuf (in that order)... (if not already installed)
- Take care to REMOVE first old installations of X-CD-Roast first, especially if these were installed from RPMs. Having two releases of X-CD-Roast confuses most users.
- Unpack xcdroast-0.98alpha15.tar.gz and run
./configure
To install xcdroast in another prefix-path than "/usr/local":
./configure --prefix=/usr
You can also configure where X-CD-Roast should look for the cdrtools. By default X-CD-Roast first looks in $PREFIX/lib/xcdroast-0.98/bin and then in $PREFIX/bin.
- Example
./configure --prefix=/usr --with-cdrtools-prefix=/opt/schily
See "./configure --help" for a full list of supported options. (Useful ones might be too:
--mandir=DIR (Where the man page will be installed)
--sysconfdir=DIR (Directory of the root-config file)
--with-xcdroast-libdir-prefix=PFX (default: PREFIX/lib/xcdroast-0.98)
--disable-nonrootmode do not use X-CD-Roast non-root mode
--enable-gtk2 compile for GTK2 instead for old GTK
)
Now compile X-CD-Roast with typing:
make
And install it with:
make install
(You might have be root to run this command)
- Install cdrecord, mkisofs, cdda2wav and readcd:
See the cdrtools documentation about details.
Example under Linux:
tar xvfz cdrtools-2.00.3.tar.gz
cd cdrtools-2.00.3
make
make INS_BASE=/usr/local install
(If you dont set INS_BASE when doing "make install" the cdrtools will install themselves to /opt/schily.)
X-CD-Roast looks for the cdrtools first in $PREFIX/lib/xcdroast-0.98/bin ($PREFIX is /usr/local if you dont changed it) and if it does not find them it tries $PREFIX/bin (or whatever you configured as cdrtools-prefix).
Don't make links to the cdrtools because then the activation of the non-root-mode will fail. Please copy the binaries instead.
- To enable the non-root mode you just have to start X-CD-Roast now. The instructions in "README.nonroot" are done automatically on startup (if you choose so).
- If you had the non-root mode from an older version of X-CD-Roast activated you should reset the permissions on the cdrtools now. It's not longer required to have and suid-bits or special groups on these.
Now you can start X-CD-Roast with "xcdroast".
See DOCUMENTATION about basic usage and FAQ for any questions you may have.
Feedback/Bugreports:
If you think you found a bug (please don't write about "missing" features - remember this release shows only about 97% of the final product) you have first to find out if you can reproduce it reliably. Then run xcdroast in debug mode (-d 10 switch) and send me the output. Please describe what exactly you have done and what went wrong. Also make your tests with english or german texts! Otherwise I can't read the error-messages myself!
Please note:
The FAQ on http://www.xcdroast.org/faq is the first place to look when you have problems.
30.10.2003 Thomas Niederreiter (tn@xcdroast.org)