On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Roger Searle <[email protected]> wrote: > Phill Coxon wrote: >> >> On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 13:46 +1200, Roger Searle wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi, I am thinking of making use of "light scribe" to label some CDs for a >>> project I am working on, and wondering if anyone on the list has experience >>> with doing this in linux, which I don't recall ever seen mentioned on any >>> lugs. Goes without saying there is the need for drives and disks capable of >>> such, I am looking for tips on packages to use or avoid or any other gotchas >>> people may have come across, esp any 32/64 bit dramas. >>> >> >> Lightscribe works just fine under Linux with the only downside being >> that the software available is fairly basic: >> >> http://www.lightscribe.com/downloadSection/linux/index.aspx >> > > seems i strike out due to using a 64bit distro (and synaptic shows no > packages either): > > ro...@gemini:~/Desktop$ sudo dpkg -i > lightscribe-1.18.4.1-linux-2.6-intel.deb > dpkg: error processing lightscribe-1.18.4.1-linux-2.6-intel.deb (--install): > package architecture (i386) does not match system (amd64) > Errors were encountered while processing: > lightscribe-1.18.4.1-linux-2.6-intel.deb > > is there a way of forcing this or is it just not worth the effort? > Roger > >
Roger, do you know google? its a fantastic search engine. googlng "lightscribe amd64" came up with 54,800 hits including several apparently successful howtos, eg http://www.csamuel.org/2007/11/29/installing-lacie-4l-lightscribe-software-on-amd64-ubuntudebian-systems the secret seems to be ia32-libs
