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Barghest

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From: Hanau/Germany

Registered: 2008-01-03

Posts: 563

Need help with PKGBUILD (Express Scribe)

Hi!

I have to test the transcription software "Express Scribe"

For what I've learned one shouldn't install software without pacman to hold the system clear. So I already created a PKGBUILD for another programm by myself but I fail with this one. Maybe it's because the developer only provides a compiled binary?

You can find a native linux version here: http://www.nch.com.au/scribe/linux.html

Thanks in advance for your help!

Barghest

Stefan Husmann

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-07

Posts: 1,391

Re: Need help with PKGBUILD (Express Scribe)

The tarball unpacks to a singel bash script. The bash script itself is an install script with included binary data. So on first sight I would say this is unpackagable.

On the other hand, the script itself is very badly written.

Barghest

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From: Hanau/Germany

Registered: 2008-01-03

Posts: 563

Re: Need help with PKGBUILD (Express Scribe)

I expected something like that

I installed it via sh scribe adjusted my PATH in .bashrc and everything works.

As I said it's only for testing purposes and I gues it won't mess up my system

Thanks anyway

Stefan Husmann

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-07

Posts: 1,391

Re: Need help with PKGBUILD (Express Scribe)

Just for the record: i686 only.