::EDIT:: 06/25/2014 This originally worked perfectly, then after a restart, the program refused to open. So I navigated to the /.wine folder (it's hidden), then went to the NCH Software folder and found "scribe.exe". When I double clicked on it, the program automatically opened in Wine and runs. So I just copied the .exe file and made a folder in the home folder titled "Windows Launchers" to access it more easily.
Hello. I'm not sure if this will help now, since this is over a year old now, but I wrote a blog post today addressing this. I have been trying for weeks to get Express Scribe working on Ubuntu 14.04. The native Linux problem just didn't work (it would fast-forward instead of rewind, the play with auto-pausing never worked, and it would start 2:07 into the audio file). It was horrible, so it's obvi/ously buggy.
However, I was having the same issue you described until about 2 weeks ago. My husband had installed a bunch of libraries and some Linux headers. We were actually trying to get VirtualBox to work rather than figuring out what was wrong in running it through Wine, and in the process, he got it to work through Wine.
Now, I am a complete Linux newbie. So, some of this may not actually have to be done, but I did it anyway and it worked. I had to do a fresh install last night, and didn't follow these steps and got the same warning you were getting, so I did another fresh install today and got it to work using the following.
You can find the blog post here: The Perils of Express Scribe, but I will post everything here for the sake of everyone else reading this.
First, I installed some libraries:
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sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-0:i386
sudo apt-get install lib32stdc++6
sudo apt-get install lib32z1
sudo apt-get install lib32ncurses5
sudo apt-get install lib32bz2-1.0
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install libz-dev
sudo apt-get install libreadline-gplv2-dev:i386
sudo apt-get install libncursesw5-dev
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
sudo apt-get install libgdbm-dev
sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev
sudo apt-get install libbz2-dev
sudo apt-get install liblzma-dev
sudo apt-get install tk-dev
sudo apt-get install libdb-dev
sudo apt-get install libc6-dev
Then I installed some old headers:
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sudo apt-get install linux-generic
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic
Then I downloaded wine:
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sudo apt-get install wine
Then I downloaded Express Scribe for Windows.
Then I decided to do the following commands because my husband did them when it worked properly the first time, so I figured, why not?
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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Then I opened Wine, found my .exe file in the file manager, and installed Express Scribe.
Works flawlessly for now. Not sure what those steps do/did, but it works now. And I'm also not sure if those will work for you or not. It's just what worked for me.
for helping this confused geekgrrl!
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