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Easier Linux installation.
Posted: October 18th, 2008, 11:24 pm
by hulloha
Hi, I run linux (ubuntu) on my laptop, and it would be nice if sabnzbd had an easier way to be made to run on startup, like a checkbox in the web interface. This would be a welcome addition for windows as well.
Re: Easier Linux installation.
Posted: October 19th, 2008, 1:14 am
by sander
On Ubuntu, installation is easy:
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sudo apt-get install python python-cherrypy python-cheetah python-elementtree python-yenc python-celementtree python-feedparser unrar unzip par2 python-openssl
About (auto) startup by a simple GUI-click: I totally agree; it should be there.
In the meantime: have you read
http://forums.sabnzbd.org/index.php?topic=958.0 ? With a few (CLI) commands, you can make SABnzbd start as a service.
Re: Easier Linux installation.
Posted: October 19th, 2008, 7:01 am
by shypike
Such features for Linux is work for package creators.
Given the closed world of official Linux package creators, we have no intention of joining it.
Apart from the fact that at least three different packaging methods exist (Debian, RedHat, Suse).
In the mean time, JCFP has done a nice job of creating an un-official Debian/Ubuntu package for SABnzbd.
Maybe he could add such features to the package.
(
http://forums.sabnzbd.org/index.php?topic=387.0 )
For Windows we do intend to add some more support later.
Re: Easier Linux installation.
Posted: October 19th, 2008, 8:49 am
by jcfp
No need to ask: my package already installs a script in /etc/init.d/ to start the program as a daemon on system startup (requiring no more effort from the user than a single edit in /etc/default/sabnzbdplus).
Having some kind of GUI-click to autostart the program on the other hand is very complicated to implement on Linux, and indeed not worth the time and effort especially when considering how easily this can be handled by users and/or packagers via init.d, rc.local (or equivalent), and the autostart options of various window managers.
Re: Easier Linux installation.
Posted: October 19th, 2008, 10:42 am
by rascalli
yep grab the package from jcfp
Just used it on my new installed server , and it worked perfect. Very Very easy.
Re: Easier Linux installation.
Posted: October 22nd, 2008, 11:46 pm
by hulloha
thanks, didn't realize someone had made a package that installs it as an autostart.
Re: Easier Linux installation.
Posted: October 23rd, 2008, 5:04 am
by shypike
Great job JCFP!