How to install cdemu..

[EjeCt]

Hi all this is my first howto.. Soo bare with me..
(All commandos are in a console..)
cdemu is a tool for mounting thoose peskey cue/bin files..

first you need some tools to get the job done..

sudo apt-get install build-essential

then you need youre kernel headers that you are using..
Mine are 2.6.12-9-686
You can simply find them by opening a console
write:

uname -r
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`

now this is done
Get the the src off cdemu

wget http://robert.private.outertech.com/...mu-0.7.tar.bz2

extract the files using

tar -jxvf cdemu-0.7.tar.bz2

next go into the newly created directory

cd cdemu-0.7

type in:

sudo ls -la /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build

if this is goes bad.. you got the wrong linux-header
next type:

sudo make

next:

sudo make install

next:

sudo modprobe cdemu

then your all done..
to use it

sudo mkdir /media/iso

(0 is the drive you can have from 0 to 7 cue/bin files mounted at the same time)

sudo cdemu 0 something.cue
sudo mount /dev/cdemu/0  /media/iso -t iso9660

and then you have it..
Just browse to the /media/iso folder in you're nautilus..
to get nice overview what is mounted with cdemu
type:

cdemu -s

If something isnt right please post back..

EjeCt

[frodon]

I suggest to add in the install section :

sudo apt-get install checkinstall

and then replace "sudo make install" by :

sudo checkinstall -D

It will allow to create a .deb file during install and also to see cdemu in synaptic (easy to uninstall).

Thanks for this helpful HOWTO.

[Swoop]

It didnt work with the sudo checkinstall command ... it got some error it couldnt overwrite someting

Anyways used the normal make install and it works great Could have used this tool earlier when i had som bin-cue files to mount

[Anything Generic]

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[Laterix]

I'm having trouble doing the Make command. Everything else went A-ok... can anyone help me pinpoint what's wrong?

It says that it cannot find gcc-3.4 compiler. Breezy comes with a newer version, but I'm not sure does this require 3.4 version. I got it working by simply installing 3.4 version

sudo apt-get install gcc-3.4

[sceptre0]

Great post! I was up and running in less than 5 minutes. One small thing I want to point out was that the device directories were /dev/cdemu0 through cdemu7 not cdemu/0-cdemu/7. I used version 0.8 not 0.7 so they may have changed it. Thanks! Keep up the good work!

[adamkane]

checkinstall doesn't work, since cdemu is a kernel module. Each version of Ubuntu needs its own installer, i386, i686, k7.

To install, you use:

make
sudo make install

To uninstall, you use:

sudo make uninstall

You can create a .deb file that installs the cdemu.ko file where it needs to go. Open the automatix 1 .deb file to learn how to create a .deb from a simple install script.

You just create your install script, and package it with:

sudo dpkg -b cdemu-0.7 cdemu-0.7.deb

Your files will be laid out like this under cdemu-0.7:

/control
/DEBIAN/control
/DEBIAN/preinst
/usr/bin/cdemu
/usr/bin/create_cdemu_devs
/lib/kernel/misc/cdemu.ko
/lib/python/python_script.py
etc.

[frodon]

If i remember well (it's quite old now) i used checkinstall to create the .deb below. But anyway even with the .deb you need the kernel headers.

If some of you are interested by a .deb file, here is the one i created with checkinstall :

[adamkane]

Tell everyone which kernel you have installed.

We need to put out different .debs for each kernel, or create some sort of universal .deb.

How did you get checkinstall to work? It doesn't work on dapper, because checkinstall tries to overwrite existing files, and apt doesn't like that.

[slapgat]

Hi there please help. I'm a noobie to linux.
Followed your guide bit when i get to sudo make i get this:

slapdash@lappy:~/Desktop/cdemu-0.8$ sudo make
/bin/sh: Syntax error: Bad fd number
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.22-14-generic'
/bin/sh: Syntax error: Bad fd number
CC [M] /home/slapdash/Desktop/cdemu-0.8/cdemu_mod.o
/home/slapdash/Desktop/cdemu-0.8/cdemu_mod.c: In function ‘cdemu_exit’:
/home/slapdash/Desktop/cdemu-0.8/cdemu_mod.c:198: error: too many arguments to function ‘invalidate_bdev’
make[2]: *** [/home/slapdash/Desktop/cdemu-0.8/cdemu_mod.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/slapdash/Desktop/cdemu-0.8] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.22-14-generic'
make: *** [default] Error 2

i'm using gutsy gibbon 7.10

thx