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DVD labelling with Lightscribe on Ubuntu (and the EEEPC)

Friday, August 20th, 2010

Just before departing for the Philippines I bought a Lacie external DVD burner for using with the EEEPC. I only needed to be able to burn DVDs while travelling but, since the price difference was minimal, I decided to buy a Lightscribe capable DVD burner. Now, back in Italy, while I’m involved in preparing vacation’s slide-shows and and videos, I decided to burn my first Lightscribe label using Ubuntu and the EEEPC.

 

Installation

 

There are plenty of tutorials on the ‘net about installing Lightscribe software, I based myself on this tutorial from Ubuntu community. First I downloaded Lightscribe system software and labelling software deb packages from the following links:

then I installed them with the dpkg command (you can do it also by double-clicking on the files)

sudo dpkg –install lightscribe-1.18.8.1-linux-2.6-intel.deb

sudo dpkg –install lightscribeApplications-1.18.6.1-linux-2.6-intel.deb

sudo dpkg –install 4l_1.0-r6_i386.deb

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