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Hi, all,

Fantastic project. I switched from hellanzb two days ago and am liking it. I'm somewhat of a linux simpleton so I have a quick question:

Despite having installed 0.4.9 via apt, can I still just replace the sabnzbd folder with the 4.11 one to upgrade? I assume I can't because that will make apt angry, but I just wanted to check.

Here's what happened and why I'm asking:
I'm on Ubuntu Jaunty.

1. I installed 0.4.9 via aptitude -- super-easy, works great, I love the program.
2. I wanted to use the RSS feature, but it was asking for a key of some sort and wouldn't work. I log on here and see that this issue is fixed in 0.4.11
3. I deleted the 4.9 install completely and attempted to install 0.4.11 by hand. It got up and running, but everytime I saved the config it timed out, i couldn't shut it down properly, watched folder wasn't being watched, and generally it was just not working right. I saw a post about this having something to do with python 2.6 perhaps, but I'm sure I messed up somewhere along the line.
4. I've reinstalled 4.9 via apt, but I really would like that RSS feature ;-)

Sorry for the unnecessarily long post. I guess I just want to know the easiest way to get the RSS feature working on my 4.9 install, or otherwise if 4.11 will be added to the repositories, or otherwise if I can just replace the sabnzbd directory from the apt install (which i think is in /usr/share/ for some reason)?

Many thanks and congrats on a great project.

Apologies, it appears I didn't do my due diligence.

If i switch from the smpl template to the default RSS appears to be working. So I'm no longer in any rush to upgrade.

Future releases will eventually make it to the repos though, right?

It would indeed be python 2.6 messing your custom install up. You could install python 2.5 can start python with python25 command instead of just python

You probably can just overwrite 0.4.9 install that apt installed and it should still work.

tagavor wrote:Future releases will eventually make it to the repos though, right?

Updates of packages in Ubuntu always go into the development release. At the moment, that's 9.10/karmic, which already has 0.4.11. In order to get a package updated in an older release (i.e. jaunty or older), a good enough excuse is needed: crashes, data loss, security issues, or really significant new features. None of these apply for 0.4.11.

That's why there's my ppa, see this forum thread; allows you to use apt as usual and still have the latest release for any supported Ubuntu version.