Transcription software?

[JD]

On 01/04/2013 05:16 PM, David Fletcher wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 15:13 -0700, JD wrote:
>>> Doing some digging, there's something called Express Scribe For Linux
>>> http://www.winsite.com/Audio/Media-Players/Express-Scribe-For-Linux/
>>> but I prefer to go to the Ubuntu repository.
>> All you have to do is untar it and run
>> sh scribe
>> it will indeed belch out some errors, which do not seem
>> to prevent the gui from coming up.
>> It killer flaw is that it has the wrong value of the sound card hard coded.
>> To wit:
>> (scribe:8500): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Unable to get session bus:
>> The connection is closed
>> ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1401:(_snd_pcm_hw_open) Invalid value for card
> I can't get it installed. I set up a VM to play on, unpacked the tar
> file, tried to run it and it just errors at line 21, moaning about the
> temp directory it tries to set up under /tmp/.
>
>
>
What are the permission setting of /tmp?
Are you running as root or unprivileged user?

I suggest you chmod /tmp as follows:

sudo chmod -t 777 /tmp

and then as unprivileged user, retry to run it.

Cheers,

JD