K3b Cannot Burn Dvds On Opensuse 10.3 ?

I tried to burn a DVD with K3b, but it fails, saying it needs dvd+rw-tools

However, trying to install them causes conflict with other standard installed packages.

Removing those packages also removes K3b.

How do you solve this??

You'll need to install the package 'k3b-codecs' from the packman-repository. I also recommend to use the packman-Version of K3B itself.

You'll need to install the package 'k3b-codecs' from the packman-repository. I also recommend to use the packman-Version of K3B itself.
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That didn't work. I already had k3b-codecs installed, but reinstalled it anyway. In any case, I keep getting

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.

and when I try to install dvd+rw-tools, it conflicts with cdrtools. Uninstalling that package also removes K3B, which is sort of pointless...

(Sorry to have taken so long to answer!)

k3b works fine for me. Here are the relevant packages I have on my 10.3 system:

dvd+rw-tools-7.0-49
cdrdao-1.2.2-120
cdrkit-cdrtools-compat-1.1.6-22

As you can see, no cdrtools. I have to question where you got that from.

k3b works fine for me. Here are the relevant packages I have on my 10.3 system:

dvd+rw-tools-7.0-49
cdrdao-1.2.2-120
cdrkit-cdrtools-compat-1.1.6-22

As you can see, no cdrtools. I have to question where you got that from.
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Hey, great idea! I just went on, uninstalled cdrtools (which removed K3B), and then installed dvd+rw-tools and cdrkit-cdrtools-compat; cdrdao was already installed. Then, I went back, and installed K3B, without a hitch. And it works!

Thanks for your idea!

Hmmm... that should've worked when installing k3b-codecs, since this is a metapackage which installs all needed packages as dependencies. When installing it the first time, did you tell YaST to ignore dependencies? That you should ever do.

Hmmm... that should've worked when installing k3b-codecs, since this is a metapackage which installs all needed packages as dependencies. When installing it the first time, did you tell YaST to ignore dependencies? That you should ever do.
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Nope, negatory, never, negative: I always install all needed dependencies, rather than ignoring them.