Install Sonarr Downloader This article describes how to install Sonarr on Debian and integrate it with the previously configured transmission and nzbget programs. Sonarr is the new name for NZBdrone – an application which not only automates TV show downloads but also maintains them after this is done. For example, depending on settings you configure, …

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Install Nzbget Usenet Downloader This article describes how to download and install nzbget on a debian server. Usenet is a distributed system where users read and post messages – articles or posts, and collectively termed news) to one or more categories, known as newsgroups. They have been around since before the internet as we know …

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Install transmission-daemon You could be forgiven for thinking that a simple “apt-get install” would suffice to install transmission-daemon and thoretically it does. However! We want this set up securely and neatly as there are other components which need to interact with transmission and its files and directories and ideally we will have all of these …

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Debian Server Install This article details how to create a standard, headless debian server install. For our linux media server project we will be using the latest version distribution available at the time of writing: Debian 8.3. You can also use the process below to build a standard debian server. It will be headless, i.e. …

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Linux Media Server From Scratch! This series of articles describes how to build a complete linux media server for finding, downloading, organising and streaming media.   Before we start, it goes without saying (but I’m saying it here anyway!) that this is a grey area, that you should already have legal entitlement to watch these …

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