Peapod is currently designed to be run from the command-line - ie, it doesn't have a GUI. Once you have downloaded & extracted peapod simpy type :

/path/to/peapod.py

This will create a default configuration file for you in your home directory in :

~/.peapod/peapod.xml

You can edit this file in a text-editor to set the defaults for the program. You can also over-ride the defaults by using command-line arguments which you can read by typing :

/path/to/peapod.py --help

To add a feed using the commandline simply type :

/path/to/peapod.py --addnew=http://www.somewhere.com/feed.xml

To fetch any updated feeds in your list just run :

/path/to/peapod.py

To copy all the feeds you've downloaded recently to your MP3 player you can run :

/path/to/peapod.py --copynew

Every subsequent run with --copynew will copy all of the podcasts that you've downloaded since the last time you ran copynew.

To dump a playlist of downloaded files since the last time you ran playlist

/path/to/peapod.py --playlist > /path/to/podcasts.m3u