su is probably asking for your root password. Do you have a link for the original tarball we could look at to give better advice?
-- Russell Senior [email protected] On Fri, Nov 29, 2024 at 3:39 PM Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 11/29/24 15:19, Michael Ewan wrote: > > You have to run it as a shell script, the meat of the data is encoded > > after the __ARCHIVE_FOLLOWS__ line, the script decodes it and sends it > > to tar to be extracted. Then it apparently runs the installer for you. > > > > I sometimes over complicate things. > > Here's my result: > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > rsteff@ENU-2:~/Downloads/Scribe$ ./scribe > > Please wait while installer is initialising..... > Release Date: Fri Jan 30 00:51:58 IST 2009 > Express Scribe 4.31 > Password: > su: Authentication failure > rsteff@ENU-2:~/Downloads/Scribe$ > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > The password is not my usual password. I may need to get one from NCH, > the software manufacturer. But this is from 2009, so I don't know if > they still support it. I'll try contacting them. > > Thanks. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens
