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I am a recent convert to Ubuntu (14.04) and still quite a novice. Looking for a DVD writing software, and dissatisfied with both Brasero and K3b, I downloaded Nero Linux 4. This works pretty well except in one respect: it cannot do multisession writing. I gathered from the Internet that Nero Linux 3 has no such issue, so I downloaded it. But Nero Linux 3 requires installation via command line, with which I am all at sea.

The instruction that accompanies it says:

INSTALLATION NERO LINUX 3.0.5.1
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OPEN TERMINAL IN THIS FOLDER
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become root (su or sudo depending on your distro)

tar xzvf nerolinux-3.5.1.0.tgz -C /
nero

This I am unable to execute. I cannot even make out what is meant by "Open Terminal in this folder/ become root" etc. I just tried typing sudo apt-get and then pasting the rest in Terminal, but this was rejected. I would be immensely grateful if someone could provide a step-by-step how-to-do, preferably with specific reference to the above installation instruction, assuming zero knowledge on my part.

Oli
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Fairly importantly, I think you might not have an official copy of this and that could make what you're about to do pretty dangerous. The documentation for Nero 3 only talks about RPM and DEB installers.

If you're confident your copy isn't going to destroy your life, carry on... Otherwise try to get hold of the DEB installer. It'll make things much easier.

"Becoming root" translated to "prefix it with sudo" in Ubuntu-ese (so it becomes sudo tar ...) but there might be a better way of handling this. Alien can convert binary tgz packages like this into a DEB. This simply makes it easy to remove. Alien will also install the package at the same time as creating it.

sudo apt-get install alien
sudo alien -di nerolinux-3.5.1.0.tgz

And then you should be able to run nero (I'm not sure if it installs launchers; the documentation claims /usr/share/applications/nerolinux.desktop will be created).

Because we've used alien removing it should be as simple as looking for nerolinux in your favourite package manager, or just running sudo apt-get remove nerolinux from a command line.

Though I'm not sure that Nero 4 doesn't do multi-session. There are a lot of people saying they've had problems and a similar number of posts suggesting an update fixed it (this is back around 2010). In my experience this is as much to do with the media and hardware as it is the software.

Oli
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