I found the link:
https://www.nch.com.au/scribe/scribe.tar.gz
That extracts to:
scribe
which is a script at the top, followed by another tar.gz file.
Following the script, I pruned the script using this:
awk '/^__ARCHIVE_FOLLOWS__/ { print NR + 1; exit 0; }' scribe
which gave me 27, so i plugged that value:
tail -n +27 scribe > scribe-interior.tar.gz
then I made a scratch subdirectory and extracted the interior tar.gz
mkdir scratch
cd scratch
tar xzvf ../scribe-interior.tar.gz
That expanded into a bunch of files, including bin/scribe. I tried running it:
./bin/scribe
qemu-i386-static: Could not open '/lib/ld-linux.so.2': No such file
or directory
Checking the type of binary:
file bin/scribe
bin/scribe: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1
(SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-linux.so.2, for
GNU/Linux 2.6.8, stripped
which implies it is a 32-bit binary.
Not sure that's going to work on a 64-bit system. You can look at the
contents of the install.sh script too.
--
Russell Senior
[email protected]
On Fri, Nov 29, 2024 at 4:48 PM Russell Senior
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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
