The instructions should be included inside the emptriv archive file that you downloaded, most likely in a file named "readme" or "install" or something like that. If not, then complain to the author of the program.

emptriv was the first app I wrote, and as such, never contained a README. It was really an alpha release that I wanted only "power users" to be using, though once it got more usable, I did answer installation questions on the BBS.

Blipman, take a look at this post. This explains, in pretty coarse terms, what it takes to install emptriv. The one change that's happened since I wrote it is that the step where I say "you need to run the binary" has been simplified due to Hijack's ;@EXEC function. You should be able to add a line like this:

;@EXEC /drive0/emptriv/emptriv

to do this (depending on where you extract the emptriv archive to.)

We as 3rd party empeg developers aren't trying to be elitist by not providing a painless install procedure -- we just haven't developed a painless procedure yet. emphatic, which is the app I've worked on much more recently than emptriv, has a somewhat automated install, but it's not without its problems either. emptriv is the hardest install... It's certainly not the one I'd pick first to try out if I weren't already very familiar with Linux.