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Its kind of urgent and I am not that experienced with linux I took some advice on an other topic here on what software to use for transcription and someone mentioned "the poor mans transcriber" known as pmTrans

The think is that it isnt a deb package nor has it some sh or install file in it... it is supposed to work in linux I extracted the zip and the jar for linux 64bit yet there are only 2 folder there and some .so files.. please help

papajo
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  • The file you need is the one ending in .jar, but it is best run directly, rather than unpacked like a .zip file. Follow Videonauth's instructions below, or try right-clicking on it to see if opening the .jar file with Java is listed as an option. If you get an error about it "not being executable", see the answers to the following question: http://askubuntu.com/questions/270172/how-can-i-make-a-jar-file-executable –  May 09 '16 at 18:16

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You can just start this from terminal by typing:

java -jar pmTransALLOS.jar

You can make afterwards a shortcut by nano ~/Desktop/pmTrans.desktop and adding the following lines into it:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=pmTrans
Comment=pmTrans
Exec=java -jar /path-to/pmTransALLOS.jar
Icon=
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Reader;
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