how to setup program manually

okay tumpy, ok an easy way is to click the large K button and select run command,
type in the box kdesu kate /etc/apt/sources.list
click run, you will be asked to enter your password root (password) again, do so.

now in the file thats open scroll down to bottom and begin a new line with these entries:

deb http://freevo.sourceforge.net/debian unstable main
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main

then click file and save

next click large K button again and run command and type konsole
in the new window that opens type the following:

su
now enter your root password

now enter the following
apt-get update
when its finished type in the last command i.e.
apt-get install freevo

hope that helps you

./hippy

www.mepislovers.org/
www.mepis.org/

I follow your instruction to a t, it went through it's process until it came to my name and i exit the window, i then went and open kpackage manage to make sure it was install and it was, now my question is where do i find the install icons or how do i start freevo, thank you tumpy..

okay if i am reading your post correctly you have downloaded and installed freevo, i dont use freevo or any other but check your menus for an entry in them, or click K button then find files/folders select freevo for the name and alter look in to this file:/ by using the drop down arrow, then click find. (i dont use freevo or ant other prog like this but you may be able to open konsole and just type in there freevo

./hippy

www.mepislovers.org/
www.mepis.org/

thanks got it going, i thought that this program would see my tuner card but it don't, is it the same procedure to load mythtv i would love to try it and see it can find my tuner card...

you can load anything through this system if it is on the repositories.
mythtv isn't.
so the way to find what you need is to google for hauppage tvtuner (number) linux
and the hits are freevo, mythtv and ivtv.
Personally I'd fiddle with the freevo a bit and try to sort it out; tv tuners are never simple for me.

awesome post. I cant believe this has worked installing mepis was a breeze and installing freevo was just as easy per above instructions. Now with some luck and many beers I can get rid of my ms pvr.
Thanks

I followed your directions but I got errors when I ran apt-get install freevo

this is what I got

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
freevo: Depends: python2.3-pygame but it is not installable
Depends: xmltv-util but it is not installable
Depends: libxmltv-perl but it is not installable
Depends: python2.3-xml but it is not installable
Depends: python2.3-imaging but it is not installable
Depends: python2.3-twisted but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

help plz

this happens when either one of the repositories is down or really busy and you can't connect
or
you need to reload your package list.

i have got freevo installed and working except for record through mplayer
which is of course what i want working!

Do you have all the "deb" repositories enabled? In Synaptic, settings->repositories.