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The following page has been changed by 66.248.57.128: http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/MandrakeInstallation ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @@ -1,25 +1,23 @@ -This is no discussion board. If you have problems, please join the freevo user mailing list! += Details of a easy install with Mandrake 9.2 = -= Details of install with Mandrake 9.2 = +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. -You should be running this on a newly installed Mdk 9.2 box, not your every day box. Why? Because we do a lot of things as root insecurely during install, you have been warned. - -Launch the "Software Media Manager" from your "Configuration/Packages" menu. -Choose add, select "http server" -Enter "Freevo 9.2" as name -And "http://peoples.mandrakesoft.com/~erwan/RPMS/9.2/freevo/RPMS/"; as URL. -Now your system knows where freevo is. - -Now launch your rpm installer via the "Configuration/Packages" menu -Enter freevo in the research field. -Click on freevo, and press Install. -That's it ! Freevo is now installed ! - -If you dislike the GUI interfaces, the faster way is to use a terminal under root then -urpmi.addmedia freevo http://peoples.mandrakesoft.com/~erwan/RPMS/9.2/freevo/RPMS/ -urpmi freevo -That's it ! Freevo is now installed ! -Exit the root console and Launch freevo as user +Launch the "Software Media Manager" from your "Configuration/Packages" menu. [[BR]] +Choose add, select "http server" [[BR]] +Enter "Freevo 9.2" as name [[BR]] +And "http://peoples.mandrakesoft.com/~erwan/RPMS/9.2/freevo/RPMS/"; as URL. (without the quotes) [[BR]] +Now your system knows where freevo is. [[BR]] + +Now launch your rpm installer via the "Configuration/Packages" menu [[BR]] +Enter freevo in the search field. [[BR]] +Click on freevo, and press Install. [[BR]] +If there are problems, read on.... + +If you dislike the GUI interfaces, the faster way is to use a terminal under root then [[BR]] +urpmi.addmedia freevo http://peoples.mandrakesoft.com/~erwan/RPMS/9.2/freevo/RPMS/ [[BR]] +urpmi freevo [[BR]] +Again, if you have problems, see below.... [[BR]] +Exit the root console and Launch freevo as user [[BR]] By default, this version of freevo is trying to find images/videos/music in ~/Documents/{Images|Videos|Audio} The default configuration files are located in /etc/freevo/ but you can create yours in ~/.freevo. This ones will override the /etc ones. @@ -34,6 +32,85 @@ 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 + +You probably want to install "lame" from the PLF before installing freevo so it gets included in the config file automatically. + +And if you have a "clean" install of Mandrake DL V9.2 you will need to install these RPMs +found on rpmfind.net, just open a root console and enter these lines: + +urpmi ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/contrib/i586/pycrypto-1.9a6-1mdk.i586.rpm [[BR]] +urpmi ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/contrib/i586/PyXML-0.8.3-1mdk.i586.rpm [[BR]] +urpmi ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/contrib/i586/pygame-1.6-1mdk.i586.rpm [[BR]] +urpmi ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake-devel/contrib/i586/python-lirc-0.0.4-1mdk.i586.rpm [[BR]] + + += 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 + +Known hardware/software issues - Avermedia card sound is set to the alternate sound channel, so some channels are in Spanish, etc. Anybody have a tip on how to change this? + +1 - Basic install of Mandrake 9.1 - No problems, except auto repeat on keyboard is MIA + +2 - Install xmltv painfully by hand, tracking down all the required perl modules. It doesn't work. [better: goto Thacs Rpm's. http://rpm.nyvalls.se/ and select your version (your all using 9.1 and drooling for 9.2..right?). Then just follow the directions to add his repository to your urpmi configuration. Like this: 'urpmi.addmedia thacs.rpms http://rpm.nyvalls.se/9.1/RPMS with hdlist.cz' for 9.1. Now just call 'urpmi xmltv' from a root prompt and relax while it installs.] + +3 - Download Freevo binaries. + +4 - Try installing apt: Configure urpmi vi Penguin Liberation Front instructions. Execute urpmi apt; then execute apt-get install xmltv - No such package. Get alternate rpm for apt for RH8.0, suck out the sources file for RH8 using mc, copy into M9.1 /etc/apt. Execute apt-get install xmltv; tons of missing dependency files, mostly perl related. + +5 - Download XMLTV rpms. rpm -ivh fails with a lot of missing perl library errors. rpm -ivh --nodeps fixes that. + +6 - Create shell script for xmltv as documented in Freevo docs. Run it successfully. Copy script to /etc/cron.weekly + +7 - cd to /usr/local/freevo, execute ./freevo + +8 - No tv listings. Broken link in /tmp/TV.xml + +9 - Change xmltv shell script to replace $HOME variable with /root + +10 - Change /tmp/TV.xml link to point to /root/freevo/xmltv/listings_18052003.xml + +11 - execute /usr/local/freevo - Some tv listings are showing up now. + ------------------------------------------------------- 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
