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Brasero has missing elements

Asked by John Winterton

When attempting to copy a Windows install disk for a game to the file system, Brasero refused citing missing elements. After I supplied what appeared to be the missing elements via synaptic, it still refuses but the dialogue box listing the missing elements is empty.

Need either a fix for Brasero or a better understanding of copying CD's to the file system using disk at once or track at once.

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John Winterton (jwinterton) said : 		#1

Oops, forgot to mention this is on Lucid Lynx (10.4) updated as of this morning.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

Have you tried gnomebaker?

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John Winterton (jwinterton) said : 		#3

Just did. Gnomebaker would have worked except that this is an old game disk which used mashed sectors as some kind of security arrangement. What I need is a raw, full-geometry copy to disk program that will copy the CD to disk verbatim. Oddly enough, there is an XP program that will do it, namely Virtual CD v 9.0. Unfortunately, I no longer have a copy of it, nor XP.

Also tried Gnome CD Master, but it couldn't find my CD drive. Rather primitive program interface.

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#4

> Brasero refused citing missing elements

Maybe related.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/brasero/+bug/570785
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/brasero/+bug/566784

Listing.
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/brasero/+bugs

All libs installed?
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=lucid&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=brasero

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John Winterton (jwinterton) said : 		#5

Tried all of that, still no soap. I get this dialogue box that says all elements are not installed. I am as up-to-date as possible, and even installed the -dev library (why I need a dev library seems moot). I am about to give up until better software becomes available. Having looked at the long list of Brasero problems, I understand that this may be quite a while.

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#6

Hi :)

Ok this answer is going to install "tons of bloat" on your system but have you tried K3b?

Before trying that tho have you gone through the Medibuntu worksheet just to see if some of the dependencies fix something here?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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John Winterton (jwinterton) said : 		#7

This is not that important to me that I would engage in the amount of work you suggest. I'll just have to wait until a solution appears, so this may just as well be closed.

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#8

Hi :)

That is good to hear. The medibuntu page is good to go through at each re-install or upgrade to a new release of ubuntu but it quickly becomes a case of just copy&paste the contents of the greyish green "coding brackets", avoiding removing the "non-free" components if i remember. Anyway. If all seems fine then that's better news :))

Many regards from
Tom :)

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John Winterton (jwinterton) said : 		#9

The problem is not "solved" but I am abandoning it.