Making Lightscribe work on Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex

Published on Wednesday, 18 March 2009.

Here's what I had to do to get Lighscribe working on my Memorex Multiformat DVD Recorder running Ubuntu 64-bit Intrepid Ibex (v8.10):

First had to download a couple of things:

wget http://download.lightscribe.com/ls/lightscribe-1.18.2.1-linux-2.6-intel.deb
wget http://download.lightscribe.com/ls/lightscribeApplications-1.10.19.1-linux-2.6-intel.deb

Since I am running the 64-bit version of Ubuntu, I had to do thing a little different. I had to use the --force-architecture to deal with the 64 bit architecture and I had to use the --force-overwrite because it complained that a lib already existed:

sudo dpkg --force-architecture --force-overwrite -i lightscribe-1.18.2.1-linux-2.6-intel.deb 
sudo dpkg --force-architecture --force-overwrite -i lightscribeApplications-1.10.19.1-linux-2.6-intel.deb

Check and make sure things installed alright:

sudo dpkg -s lightscribe
Should respond with:
     Package: lightscribe
     Status: install ok installed
     Maintainer: Hewlett-Packard Company
     Architecture: i386
     Version: 1.18.2.1
     Description: LightScribe System Software
      Copyright: 2005 by Hewlett-Packard Company, All Rights Reserved.
      LightScribe System Software

Now fix a couple of links:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/liblightscribe.so.1 /usr/lib32/
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/liblightscribe.so /usr/lib32/
sudo ldconfig

Now run it with

/opt/lightscribeApplications/SimpleLabeler/SimpleLabeler &

Good to go!