KaTeker Other software required

tar czf

The most important programs required are the classical tar and gzip. The tar command is used with options like tar czf ... . That is KaTeker assumes the gnu version of tar is installed, that's the Linux standard.

dar

The archiver dar is an alternative to tar. It is optimized for saving data onto disks. KaTeker will use dar if it is installed. You can get dar at http://dar.linux.free.fr .

mkisofs and cdrecord

If you got a CD recorder mkisofs and cdrecord should be already installed. It is used by other graphical user interfaces like cdroast or xcdroast. If these programs are not running on your system KaTeker will not too.

KaTeker uses cdrecord.
Cdrecord Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling

cdlabelgen

Avinash Chopde's cdlabelgen version 3.0.0 is used to print CD labels.
You can get cdlabelgen at http://www.aczone.com/tools/cdinsert/#download.
KaTeker includes cdlabelgen. If you installed cdlabelgen at /usr/local/cdlabelgen KaTeker will use it. There can be problems if cdlabelgen is older than version 3.0.0. In this case deinstall calabelgen. It will be reinstalled with KaTeker.

KaTeker uses cdlabelgen.
Copyright (C) 1998, 1999 B. W. Fitzpatrick
Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Avinash Chopde www.aczone.com

sudo

sudo will be used to give nonroot user access rights to the CDR(W) recorder. It is shipped with the Linux system.

cron

The cron package is required if periodical update will be used. The cron daemon has to be started too. It is shipped with the Linux system.

gv is a PostScript and PDF previewer. KaTeker uses it to preview CD labels. gv is shipped with the ghostscript package.