Upgrade 0.5.x to 0.6.12 in Debian squeeze?

[hanker]

Greetings

I'd like to run sabnzbd 0.6.12 on a Seagate Dockstar (plug computer) that boots Debian squeeze. Squeeze uses sabnzbd 0.5.x by default.

In the wiki

http://wiki.sabnzbd.org/faq#toc25

I see this:

How do I upgrade SABnzbd to a new version?

It's simple! All your settings are stored away from the main sabnzbd folder, and will be kept between upgrades.
...
For OSX / Linux just overwrite your current sabnzbd folder with the new files.

That certainly sounds easy, as compared with creating a backport as on

http://wiki.debian.org/SimpleBackportCreation

(which I couldn't get to work, BTW).

I have downloaded and unpacked SABnzbd-0.6.12-src.tar.gz. Which "current sabnzbd folder" do I overwrite with which "new files"?

Or what?

Help is appreciated. This machine will be used only for sabnzbd, and will never again have apt-get update/upgrade run on it, so I don't care about dependencies that might break later.

[sander]

Probably easier to add the Ubuntu PPA repository. See http://wiki.sabnzbd.org/install-ubuntu-repo and/or https://launchpad.net/~jcfp/+archive/ppa

Important: your queue should be empty during the upgrade.

[hanker]

Probably easier to add the Ubuntu PPA repository. See http://wiki.sabnzbd.org/install-ubuntu-repo and/or https://launchpad.net/~jcfp/+archive/ppa

Important: your queue should be empty during the upgrade.

Got it. Thank you.

I used this guy's script to enable the ppa in Debian:

http://blog.anantshri.info/howto-add-ppa-in-debian

And then I just installed sabnzbdplus on a fresh Debian squeeze install (rather than upgrading). Ended up with 0.6.12. Seems to work just fine.

Thank you for your reply

[Ken S]

Hi there,

I want to install sabnzbd+ 0.6.xx on Debian Squeeze. I just got a fresh install of Squeeze done up and since only 0.5.x is available, there's gonna be some work. I've ready the article mentioned above, but am unsure of which option to choose.

Do I add the Ubuntu Repo, or do I somehow get it from sid/testing?

Thanks much!

[jcfp]

More info here.