Gentoo and Lightscribe?

EasterParade · l33t Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 938

Thank you very much from here as well, Mario. I will merge it asap

And thanks to BitJam again.

Geos_One · Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 3:30 pm Post subject: temlates package

the next package on the list is the lightscribe-templates package

also on the todo for lighscribe is add a workaround for 4L-* root privileges problem.

so more to come.

p.s. every new relase of lightscribe is getting worser
for ex. old releases of the lib had the dynamic linking entry for libpthread.so.0
new versoins don't have it but are still using symbols of libpthread and when you try to link something against liblightscribe.so it errors out.
damm how to solve a buggy binary prog.

with every release the fight starts again

BitJam · Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 4:16 pm Post subject:

IIRC (I don't always), the last time I used 4L-gui it worked fine run as a regular user. I'm a member of the cdrom group and the permission on my burner are:

Geos_One · Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 5:19 pm Post subject:

BitJam · Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 6:06 pm Post subject:

I just heard back from the qlscribe developer.

Geos_One · Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:09 pm Post subject:

BitJam · Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:18 pm Post subject:

For some reason no files got installed after the compilation. Here is the relevant printout:

Geos_One · Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:25 pm Post subject:

BitJam · Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:39 pm Post subject:

It still does not work even after a reboot. But now I get a different error message. Before it was complaining about not finding the particular service file. Now it says:

Geos_One · Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 8:01 pm Post subject:

my laptop with the lighscribe drive crashed (was updating kde)
i need to wait until the merge finished
so i can only check for this error tomorrow

thx so far for your help

Geos_One · Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:06 am Post subject:

BitJam · Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:59 pm Post subject:

Geos_One · Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:52 pm Post subject:

Geos_One · Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:55 pm Post subject:

BitJam · Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:43 pm Post subject:

Recap: here are the latest instructions for installing software to label LightScribe disks in Gentoo. This will require manually downloading one or more proprietary binary packages from the lightscribe web site.

Use Mario's overlay

Emerge layman (if you don't already have it).
Add Mario's repository to the /etc/layman/layman.cfg file by adding this line:
Code:

http://ftp.mars.arge.at/pub/overlay/geos_one-overlay.xml
under the line that starts "overlays :".

Then run:
Code:

$ sudo layman -f
$ sudo layman -a lightscribe
If you have a version of Portage that supports sets then you can emerge all the LightScribe apps with:
Code:

$ emerge -av @lightscribe

Warning: the qlscribe application requires qt-4. Don't emerge it if you don't want qt-4 on your system. IMO qlscribe is by far the best application of the bunch. If you have qt-4 I suggest you only emerge qlscribe and don't bother with the other apps. The ebuilds that contain other LightScribe apps are: lightscribe-lacie and lightscribe-simplelabeler.

Notes

Several of the LightScribe packages have "fetch restrictions" which means that you have to manually download the "source" (proprietary, binary) packages and put them in your /usr/portage/distfiles directory. You download them from this site. As of this writing (August 26, 2009) the files you need to download are:
Code:

lightscribe-1.18.6.1-linux-2.6-intel.rpm
lightscribePublicSDK-1.18.6.1-linux-2.6-intel.rpm
lightscribeApplications-1.18.6.1-linux-2.6-intel.rpm

It is slightly easier to download them all at once before you start emerging. If these versions are no longer available, download what is available, and you may have to bump the ebuild version numbers if Mario has not done so already. You won't need the lightscribeApplications rpm if you're only installing qlscribe.
If the qlscribe app fails when you want to actually print a label or print a label preview then you can try the following steps to fix a bug in (some versions of) the dbus package:
Code:

$ sudo chgrp messagebus /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper
$ sudo chmod u+s /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper
If you want to use text over a background image in qlscribe, make sure you right click on the image and select "send to Back" to ensure that the image does not hide the text.
This howto should help you get up to speed using qlscribe (even if you don't want to use CDDB).

Geos_One · Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 11:23 am Post subject: temlates package

Hallo at the moment i am working on the templates package
one thing that would be cool if someone with design skills can create some gentoo Lighscribe labes (plain jpg this way the fans of 4l can also use it)
something like a lable for 2008.0 the upcomming 10.0 minicd fot the supported archs ....

thx
Mario

Geos_One · Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 1:01 pm Post subject:

Liblightscribe updated to 1.18.8.1

EasterParade · l33t Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 938

Thanks geos_one for your instructions. Did this:

Geos_One · Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 3:32 pm Post subject:

EasterParade · l33t Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 938

Yes as it always was since I' ve decided to try E17 and have layman:

BitJam · Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 4:56 pm Post subject:

As Geos_One said, if you don't want to use the /usr/local/portage overlay then you need to get rid of the line in your make.conf that adds it:

EasterParade · l33t Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 938

A slot [3] has never been there until now after removal of this category app-cdr from /usr/local/portage.
As a traditionalist my logic may be flawed : the line

gscheel · n00b Joined: 08 Nov 2005 Posts: 22

Hello All,

I have followed the instructions for using Mario's overlay and everything appeared to work until I went to actually install.

BitJam · Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 12:03 am Post subject:

I think this is due to the version of portage you are using. If you don't want to keyword (and possibly unmask) portage then you can just emerge the packages normally. If you have qt-4 installed then: