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Installation

Installation for Fedora Packages

Puppy (if not installed)
 
su -
rpm -Uvh puppy-1.11-1.i386.rpm
Guppy 
su -
rpm -Uvh guppy-1.0.0-1.FC.noarch.rpm

Installation for Debian Packages

Puppy (if not installed)
 
su -
dpkg -i puppy_1.11_i386.deb
Guppy 
su -
dpkg -i guppy_1.0.1_all.deb

Installation from source

Puppy (if not installed) 
tar jxf puppy_1.11_src.tar.bz2
cd puppy_1.11/
make
su -
cp puppy /usr/local/bin/
Guppy
 
tar jxf guppy-1.0.0.tar.bz2
su -
make install
Set the variable DESTDIR to install into a location other than /usr/local
E.g.
make DESTDIR=/usr/ install

Starting Guppy
Start Guppy from the desktop multimedia menu (this menu is called Sound & Video on Fedora Core).

 Note:
If the PVR file list is blank then you may need to be run Guppy as the root user in order to communicate with your PVR.

Switch to the root user with the following command:
 
su -
Start Guppy with the following command:
guppy

Note for Debian Users:
To set up your system so you can run Guppy as a non-root do the following:
  1. Install the toppypvr hotplug script into /etc/hotplug/usbuser : toppypvr
  2. Copy the line beginning with toppypvr from the usb.usermap file into /etc/hotplug/usb.usermap : usb.usermap

    3.

Downloading and Uploading Files
To download files select the files you want from the PVR file list (see Figure 1) and click on the right arrow button Download Button.
PVR files
Figure 1: Highlighted area is PVR File List
To upload files select the files you want from the PC file list (see Figure 2) and click on the right arrow button Upload Button
PVR files
Figure 2: Highlighted area is PC File List
   
Keyboard Short Cuts
Ctrl+d Download selected files
Ctrl+u Upload selected files
Ctrl+r Reload folders on PVR and PC
Ctrl+l Enter folder to go to on PC
Ctrl+k Enter folder to go to on PVR
Ctrl+t Enable Trubo mode

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