What's happening over here is I type cdrecord, but wodim gets run. If I were to nuke wodim would that clear this problem? On Tue, 20 Mar 2012, Joerg Schilling wrote: > gt <static.vortex@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I do have cdrtools installed, and k3b does detect cdrecord, mkisofs, > > readcd etc. > > > > But still k3b says this on startup: > > > > Unable to find growisofs executable > > K3b uses growisofs to actually write DVDs. Without growisofs you will > > not be able to write DVDs. Make sure to install at least version 5.10. > > Solution: Install the dvd+rw-tools package. > > > > Unable to find dvd+rw-format executable > > K3b uses dvd+rw-format to format DVD-RWs and DVD+RWs. > > Solution: Install the dvd+rw-tools package. > > Do you use an old version of k3b? > > Do you use a modified version of k3b? > > an unmodified k3b prevers to write DVDs via cdrecord since several years. > > J?rg > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jude <jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net> <http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html>