#### Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version 12.3

### Chapter 31. KDE Frameworks 6 Based Applications

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# k3b-24.12.2

## Introduction to K3b

The K3b package contains a KF6-based graphical interface to the Cdrtools and dvd+rw-tools CD/DVD manipulation tools. It also combines the capabilities of many other multimedia packages into one central interface to provide a simple-to-operate application that can be used to handle many of your CD/DVD recording and formatting requirements. It is used for creating audio, data, video and mixed-mode CDs as well as copying, ripping and burning CDs and DVDs.

Though k3b can be used to copy almost any DVD to similar medium, it does not provide a way to copy, or reproduce a double-layer DVD onto single-layer medium. Of course, there is not a program anywhere on any platform that can make an exact duplicate of a double-layer DVD onto a single-layer disk, there are programs on some platforms that can compress the data on a double-layer DVD to fit on a single-layer DVD producing a duplicate, but compressed, image. If you need to copy the contents of a double-layer DVD to single-layer medium, you may want to look at the RMLCopyDVD package.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.3 platform.

### Package Information

- Download (HTTP): https://download.kde.org/stable/release-service/24.12.2/src/k3b-24.12.2.tar.xz

- Download MD5 sum: 87d18a897ba0d8442bf48e20d005c3ad

- Download size: 10 MB

- Estimated disk space required: 140 MB

- Estimated build time: 1.3 SBU (using parallelism=4)

### K3b Dependencies

#### Required

KDE Frameworks-6.11.0, libkcddb-24.12.2, libsamplerate-0.2.2, and shared-mime-info-2.4

The CD/DVD drive is detected at run time using UDisks-2.10.1, which must therefore be installed before running k3b.

#### Recommended

libburn-1.5.6, libdvdread-6.1.3, and taglib-2.0.2

There are programs from three packages that k3b will look for at runtime: Cdrtools-3.02a09 (required to burn CD-ROM media), dvd+rw-tools-7.1 (required to burn or format DVD media), and Cdrdao-1.2.4 (required to burn CD-ROM media in DAO (Disk At Once) mode). If you don't need the capability provided by any of the three packages, you don't have to install it. However, a warning message will be generated every time you run the k3b program if any are not installed.

#### Optional Runtime

FFmpeg-7.1

#### Optional

FLAC-1.5.0, LAME-3.100, libmad-0.15.1b, libsndfile-1.2.2, libvorbis-1.3.7, and Musepack (libmpcdec)

## Installation of K3b

Install K3b by running the following commands:

    mkdir build &&
    cd    build &&

    cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KF6_PREFIX \
          -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release         \
          -D BUILD_TESTING=OFF                \
          -W no-dev ..                        &&
    make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the `root` user:

    make install

## Contents

Installed Programs: k3b
Installed Libraries: libk3bdevice.so, libk3blib.so, and numerous plugin modules for the installed dependencies
Installed Directories: $KF6_PREFIX/share/k3b and $KF6_PREFIX/share/doc/HTML/*/k3b

### Short Descriptions

k3b | is the graphical CD/DVD program

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