Ok, now since we have mlord's awesome new Hijack there is an easy way to install programs, right?

Mark Lord helps those who help themselves... Hijack can't solve the problem of simplifying userland application installs. Though I do think he added a couple hooks that will make mschrag and johnmcd3's jobs easier. The thread that's mentioned in the post above this one is a good idea of what's in the cooker, but I think Mike Schrag is off doing real world stuff for awhile, and help on the jEmplode side of things is needed to make it work.

I admit that I'm sort of punting on the whole install thing, including a batch file and an FTP script is sort of a cop-out. But I didn't want to spend a lot of my time working on a more adequate install procedure when johnmcd has a great concept in mind, and others are going to make that happen. Anything I could come up with would be far less than what they've got planned, and it'd be time that I can't put into the development of the software itself.

For now, I wouldn't get so hung up on installing things "the right way." For now, you might as well just create a directory on your root partition and put stuff in there. Get to a shell prompt (quit out of the player from a serial console) and type:

rw
mkdir /stuff
ro

Then edit my FTP script to say "cd /stuff" instead of "cd /usr/local/bin". Change the IP address in the BAT file to your empeg's IP address, edit the config.ini as mentioned on my web page, and you should be set. For now, that's all we got. If you really want to wait until the install stuff is more seamless, you might be waiting a while until we get it right...

Sorry these aren't great answers, but people are working on it, it's just a little behind where the kernel development is.