Posted by Vince Wadhwani on May 05, 2008

I was pretty surprised to find the Xfburn, the xfce cd/dvd burning tool, was not in Debian's Unstable repository. That means you've got to compile it from scratch in order to use it. Compiling from scratch isn't as hard as it sounds.. generally I recommend having a separate folder for the source code. After that it's just a question of the requirements.. so let's work on those.

I've been compiling for a while so I've got most of the tools handy and installed on my system already. If you're on Ubuntu, Debian, or Sidux you've probably run sudo apt-get install build-essential. If you haven't we'll run it just to make sure.. After that, it's just a question of getting these packages (and allowing the dependencies to install as well):

sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install libburn-dev 
sudo apt-get install libisofs-dev
sudo apt-get install libxfcegui4-dev
sudo apt-get install libexo-0.3-dev 
sudo apt-get install murrine-themes
sudo apt-get install subversion

Next we'll need to check out the code. Again, I recommend creating a folder in your home.. say ~/src or something. From there, run this:

svn co http://svn.xfce.org/svn/goodies/xfburn/trunk xfburn

Next, just cp into the xfburn directory, and run these familiar commands:

./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install

With that done, you should now be able to launch and run Xfburn.