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The following page has been changed by 66.248.57.68: http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/MandrakeInstallation ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @@ -32,7 +32,47 @@ PS Freevo is located in /usr/share/freevo and not in /usr/local/freevo PS2 for updating freevo when a newest version is released : urpmi.update freevo; urpmi --auto-select -== Details of install with Mandrake 9.1 == + += Details of another style of install with Mandrake 9.2 = + +The above install may be easier, but if that site goes away or references become old, try this: + +You should be running this on a newly installed Mdk 9.2 box, not your work on every day box. Why? Because we do a lot of things as root insecurely during install, you have been warned. + +Under your main KDE menu, go to Configuration -> Configure your computer + +The Mandrake Control Center comes up, go to RPM install and use search to install both "xine" and "mplayer". Just pick everything for them and install. + +The following worked for me on 12/11/2003, it's easy. If they change the script install.sh, don't get mad at me! It works great now. + +Open a terminal window and do this: (we will go root) + +su - + +lynx http://freevo.sf.net/install.sh -dump | bash -e + +This will download freevo-1.4.tar.gz and freevo-runtime-0.3.tar.gz (or whatever is the latest version) and put them into /root/.freevo/dist/ directory. + +If you already downloaded them and want to save the time, you can just make that directory and stick those files in there before running the command above. + +When you are done, it should say it installed them: + +Installed Freevo into /usr/local/freevo + +Configuration directory is /etc/freevo + +To test to see if it's there, run it. I can run it as a user or root. I open a terminal window and type: + +/usr/local/freevo/freevo + +And a new window opens and freevo runs. If you have a mpg file on your HD you can play it as a test. + +More to come when I get it working. (XMLTV and how the heck to get it to show up on my TV screen, and use a remote) + + +Note: Older Mandrake 9.1 install info I left alone and is below: + += Details of install with Mandrake 9.1 = Hardware - Homebuilt AMD 2000+, 512 MB PC133 RAM, 60 GB hard drive, Avermedia TV Stereo PCI capture card, NVIDIA Geforce4 4800 TI 8X video card with TV out ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _______________________________________________ Freevo-wikilog mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-wikilog
