Theres nothing special about it. Install it like any other standard plugin (unpack, soft link, make plugins). Optional libraries: ------------------- libpcre ------- For support of Perl compatible regular expressions in a search you have to use libpcre: simply edit the plugins Makefile and uncomment '#REGEXLIB = pcre' to 'REGEXLIB = pcre' or append 'REGEXLIB=pcre' to your 'make plugins' call. (you will need pcreposix installed, comes with libpcre from www.pcre.org, but it's already part of most distributions HINT: if all compiles well, but after starting VDR you get: ERROR: /usr/lib/libpcreposix.so.0: undefined symbol: pcre_free). update libpcre from www.pcre.org and recompile the plugin. There seems to be a problem with PCRE on some systems, that produce a crash when using regexp. Til now, I could not find the reason. So perhaps dont use REGEXLIB=pcre, if you don't really need it. libtre ------ epgsearch has a fuzzy search algorithm. Unfortunately it's restricted to search patterns with a maximum of 31 characters. This results in empty results if more than 31 characters are used. To avoid this limitation you can use the TRE package (http://laurikari.net/tre/). Install tre (on debian: apt-get install tre-agrep libtre4 libtre-dev) and activate epgsearch's support for it in the Makefile by uncommenting '#REGEXLIB = pcre' to 'REGEXLIB = tre' or append it to your 'make plugins' call. After recompiling epgsearch will now use an algorithm similar to 'agrep' with no limits.