Hi
I found Elan last year and began studying this amazing tool. I use it to transcribe recorded interviews. Strangely, it seems there are very few open source (especially cross-platform) tools exist that can do this. I’ve recommended ELAN to colleges around the world.
ELAN installs in Windows very easily. But in Linux Mint 18, I had quite a bit of trouble install it successfully.
To install ELAN, I used these commands
sudo chmod +x ELAN_4-9-4_linux.bin
sudo ./ELAN_4-9-4_linux.bin
The installer began to run and installed ELAN in /ROOT (why does it put ELAN in root rather than in OPT or USR/SHARED?)
I then have to go to the directory /root/ELAN_4.9.4 and click on ELAN_4-9-4_linux.bin to run it. ELAN then starts and operates normally.
But there is no link to ELAN on my desktop or start menu. I tried creating a desktop launcher, but was unable to do so. I right-clicked on the desktop, selected “create launcher” and then in COMMAND, tried to point to
/root/ELAN_4.9.4 but permission is denied.
How can I create a launcher?
Also, please try to get Elan included in the Debian and MINT repositories. This would greatly facilitate the installation of Elan and introduce it to more users.