Lemme start out by saying this:

This program gives very bland instructions on how to install their software. Given it's free and I shouldn't complain, but it's still aggervating!! At any rate.

The installation instructions state to type in "make" in the src directory, they do not state whether or not to be logged in as root. I make the assumption to "su" to root. It then begins to display about 5 pages of....ummm....stuff, then it says to install cdrtools1.11 before typing "make install", as if I had them handy and knew every command Linux had to compile a program. Keeping my cool, I calmly went to the web site and snagged cdrtools1.11. Again, instructions say to "just type 'make' then type 'make install'", oh gee golly...how easy!!! I then resume my installation of xcdroast after "installing" cdrtools1.11. After typing "make install", everything seemed ok. Then I ran "xcdroast" and got:

no /usr/bin/cdrecord installed

invalid lib directory

But wait....didn't I just install that? Maybe I missed something? After seaching and reading through garble I had no idea what it meant and did the best I could to understand it; I got nowhere. So quite simply folks it comes down to this: Either I need to get a CD Burning program that doesn't require 1500 OS dependant commands to install, or just tell me where the heck I went wrong and make me feel stupid.

Phew, now that I got that off my chest I feel better. Be quite frank folks, this was a rant post more than anything. If I get any useful reply though, I would appreciate it.

probably installed it (cdrecord) all under /usr/local

try pointing stuff over there

Again...pointing stuff over there means exactly what? Installing stuff over there? In which case how would I do so? If not, did you mean to extract the source file to that directory?

why didn't you download the rpm, and install from there??, their rpm is fine. And actually there are GREAT installation instructions at www.xcdroast.org
so check them. It isn't hard at all to install this program.

i did explore that site and didn't find the correct RPM's. So I searched it again after reading your message zLinuxz....and found all the RPM's I needed. I've slept since the beginning of this post and I feel better. Thanks guys!

Ok, so back to your original problem though...

cdrecord installs into /usr/bin and not /usr/loca/bin and xcdroast looks only into the directory for which is was installed for the other programs that it works with. SO you would have to install xcdroast into /usr/bin rather than it's default location of /usr/local/bin with this command:
make PREFIX=/usr
and once it finishes
make install PREFIX=/usr
and that's it. Then you will need to run xcdroast in a root GUI for the first time, and get things setup. Then you can switch back over to your user gui, and roll.

HTH

Cool

1 thing, yes you do need to be root, but only during make install. You could do this all as user, in an xterm or something, and then when it came time it make install PREFIX=/usr right before that you'd type:
su
and enter the password for root

But you will need to logout out of your user gui, and then login as root into root's gui to run XCDROAST for the first time.

Cool

If you like, you can always get my cdcopy for free. No nothing to install. Copy & paste.

http://jetblackz.freeservers.com/

Didn't you have a choice to install Xcdroast when you first installed Redhat7.3? Back when I had Redhat 7.2 It just installed XCDRoast by default and it installed cdrtools and cdrecord by default also.