There should be 32bit versions of most libraries available with your package manager (apt, dnf, whatever).
On Fri, Nov 29, 2024 at 5:10 PM Russell Senior <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
