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The following page has been changed by 134.102.218.42: http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/MandrakeInstallation ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @@ -1,92 +1 @@ -= Before you do the following make sure you setup the urpmi so that you have access to the freevo packages. - You can do that by going to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and follow the instructions there. - - -= Freevo 1.5 on Mandrake 10.1 or cooker = -Freevo 1.5 is included inside so you just have to run - -urpmi freevo - -:o) -Easiest than ever, - -= Freevo 1.5 on Mandrake 10 = - -First off go to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org There you'll find a -handy tool for setting up sources for urpmi. Add contrib, and plf. You -might want to tick 'use compressed index...' option to setup urpmi to -use a much smaller index file. After you've done this you'll probably -want to install a few things like mplayer, zine, decss etc. Now your -hopefully ready for the next part. - -You just have to run the following command as root -urpmi http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~erwan/RPMS/10.0/python-mm-0.4.5-1mdk.i586.rpm http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~erwan/RPMS/10.0/freevo-1.5.0-1mdk.i586.rpm - -= Details of a easy 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. - -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. - -A detailed sample configuration file is available at /usr/share/doc/freevo-<version>/local_conf.py.{example|fr}. -The "fr" one contains the basic configuration for TV in Paris :o) - -In addition, tvtime 0.9.12 is available in this rpm repository. All this packages are not officials, this is just some contributions. - -If you're looking at some specials version of mplayer, xine, etc... Have a look at plf (http://plf.zarb.org). - -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-1.6-2mdk.i586.rpm [[BR]] -urpmi ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake-devel/contrib/i586/python-lirc-0.0.4-1mdk.i586.rpm [[BR]] - -If you are in North America (USA) you want tv_grab_na, but the above doesn't install it, so do this as root in the root dir: (for V5.25, change this to suit newer versions) - -whereis tv_grab_na [[BR]] -(is it there? if not, follow the rest, get the file, extract it and copy files for tv_grab_na) - -wget http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/xmltv/xmltv-0.5.25.tar.bz2 [[BR]] -tar -xjvf xmltv-0.5.25.tar.bz2 [[BR]] -cp xmltv-0.5.25/grab/na/tv_grab_na /usr/bin/ [[BR]] -cp xmltv-0.5.25/grab/na/ZapListings.pm /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1/XMLTV/ [[BR]] - -Exit root and go back to a "regular" user. - -Now try configuring it, if it works then you are set to grab [[BR]] -tv_grab_na --configure - -tv_grab_na > TV-LISTING-OUT.xml [[BR]] -cp TV-LISTING-OUT.xml /tmp/TV.xml - -You now have a weeks worth of programing info in that xml file, it's text so check it out! (we copied to where Freevo wants it, and kept a copy just in case) - -NOTE: You may have problems with LIRC: In particular, you may get a message from freevo saying that it's unable to initialize lirc. If so, run this command "ln -s /dev/lircd /tmp/.lircd" -- apparently, the MDK version of the lirc client lib looks for the socket in /tmp (?). - - +Moved to new Wiki ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-wikilog mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-wikilog
