SABnzbd 2.5 on Dapper 6.06

[jtt1560]

Here is a script to install SABnzbd from source on Dapper 6.06

1) Paste this code into your terminal window:


sudo apt-get install libbz2-dev zlib1g-dev

sudo apt-get install g++
sudo apt-get install make
sudo apt-get install par2

mkdir ~/.SABnzbd
mkdir ~/Desktop/SABInstall_Files
cd ~/Desktop/SABInstall_Files
wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4.3/Python-2.4.3.tgz
wget http://download.cherrypy.org/cherrypy/2.2.1/CherryPy-2.2.1.tar.gz
wget http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/cheetahtemplate/Cheetah-1.0.tar.gz
wget http://effbot.org/downloads/elementtree-1.2.6-20050316.tar.gz
wget http://sabnzbd.sourceforge.net/yenc-0.3.tar.gz
wget http://kambing.vlsm.org/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/u/unrar-nonfree/unrar_3.5.4-0.1_i386.deb
wget http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/sabnzbd/SABnzbd-0.2.5.tar.gz

sudo dpkg -i unrar_3.5.4-0.1_i386.deb

tar -xzvf Python-2.4.3.tgz
tar -xzvf CherryPy-2.2.1.tar.gz
tar -xzvf Cheetah-1.0.tar.gz
tar -xzvf elementtree-1.2.6-20050316.tar.gz
tar -xzvf yenc-0.3.tar.gz
tar -xzvf SABnzbd-0.2.5.tar.gz


2) Change in this code <YOURUSERNAME> to your Ubuntu login name
and then paste it in your terminal window.

cd ~/Desktop/SABInstall_Files/Python-2.4.3
./configure --prefix=/home/<YOURUSERNAME>/.SABnzbd
make && make install

3) Now copy and paste the rest of the code in the terminal window.


cd ~/Desktop/SABInstall_Files/CherryPy-2.2.1
~/.SABnzbd/bin/python setup.py install

cd ~/Desktop/SABInstall_Files/Cheetah-1.0
~/.SABnzbd/bin/python setup.py install

cd ~/Desktop/SABInstall_Files/elementtree-1.2.6-20050316
~/.SABnzbd/bin/python setup.py install

cd ~/Desktop/SABInstall_Files/yenc-0.3
~/.SABnzbd/bin/python setup.py install

cd ~/Desktop/SABInstall_Files/SABnzbd-0.2.5
mkdir ~/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd
cp -R SABnzbd.ini.sample SABnzbd.py sabnzbd/ templates/ ~/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd
cd ~/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd
mv SABnzbd.ini.sample SABnzbd.ini

cd ~/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd
chmod +x SABnzbd.py
mkdir ~/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd/nzb
mkdir ~/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd/nzb/backup
chmod -R +x ~/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd/sabnzbd


4) Finish it up

Edit files located in /home/<YOURUSERNAME>/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd
Now edit your SABnzbd.py

Change the first line in SABnzbd.py
#!/usr/bin/python -OO
to
#!/home/<YOURUSERNAME>/.SABnzbd/bin/python -OO

Now edit your SABnzbd.ini
example:
## location of your log directory, "" to disable logging
log_dir = "/home/<YOURUSERNAME>/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd/templates"

SABnzbd will not run unless the directories are correctly edited. DO NOT USE the same directory for downloaded files and completed files. They must be different. Make sure to set a directory for the log files. If you have a problem look at the log file in the same directory to see what the error is. It will be easily fixed if there is a configuration problem. The log file is great at telling you why the program did not run.

RUN IT
cd ~/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd
./SABnzbd.py -d -f SABnzbd.ini

load your webbrowser and goto the following address:
http://127.0.0.1:8080/sabnzbd/

[KeithWatson]

Thanks for this very well written guide. I just followed it in Edgy 6.10 and everything works great.

I am a bit of a newbie, and I ran into a roadblock that I thought I might document to help others with my limited experience. After following the guide above when I tried to run SABnzbd it still did not work. Eventually I realized that maybe I should make the file SABnzbd.ini executable so I typed the line below into terminal and everything works perfectly now.

sudo chmod +x SABnzbd.ini

Also, I just realized that I could just copy the two lines that make SABnzb run into a text file and save it to my desk top. Now when I double click that file I am prompted to either display or run in terminal. There may be a better way to accomplish this, but at least now I don't have to type those two lines every time.

[felker2]

In the ~/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd I created some directories:

mkdir log
mkdir download
mkdir complete
mkdir cache

I then edited the directory settings in SABnzbd.ini. The result:

sander@kubuntu:~/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd$ grep _dir SABnzbd.ini

web_dir = "/home/sander/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd/templates"
download_dir = "/home/sander/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd/download"
complete_dir = "/home/sander/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd/complete"
nzb_backup_dir = ""
cache_dir = "/home/sander/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd/cache"
log_dir = "/home/sander/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd/log"
dirscan_dir = ""


Via the webinterface I configured the newsserver, and then everything worked!


BTW: I think

./configure --prefix=/home/<YOURUSERNAME>/.SABnzbd

can be issued as

./configure --prefix=/home/`whoami`/.SABnzbd

The same for changing directory to /home/<YOURUSERNAME>/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd :

cd /home/`whoami`/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd

or just

cd ~/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd

[roppedoez]

hello,
i've got the problem that when i try to start with ./SABnzbd.py -d -f SABnzbd.ini, i get the error: Can't write to logfile.
what did i wrong? i placed the log directory here: ~/news/log
i followed all instructions from: http://drbyte.wiki.xs4all.nl/index.php?title=drbyte:Community_Portal#Installati on_SABnzbd

and modified the SABnzb.ini, filled in all directories that were asked, and created them all in ~/news

can somebody help?
thanks

[felker2]

@roppedoez:

Does the directory ~/news/log exist (as SABnzbd does *not* create directories)?

And if the directory does exist, have you tried filling out the complete path in SABnzbd.ini, so without the ~?

[roppedoez]

okay that seems to work... SABnzbd won't start yet, but it's progress;)
maybe somebody can help with this problem? a logfile used to be handy, but i think i'm not experienced enough to track down the problem. somebody got an idea?

i now have the following log:
2007-02-19 21:13:17,190::INFO::--------------------------------
2007-02-19 21:13:17,191::INFO::SABnzbd v0.2.5
2007-02-19 21:13:17,191::INFO::Initializing SABnzbd v0.2.5
2007-02-19 21:13:17,191::DEBUG::FAIL_ON_CRC -> False
2007-02-19 21:13:17,191::DEBUG::CREATE_GROUP_FOLDERS -> False
2007-02-19 21:13:17,192::DEBUG::DO_FILE_JOIN -> True
2007-02-19 21:13:17,192::DEBUG::DO_UNZIP -> True
2007-02-19 21:13:17,192::DEBUG::DO_UNRAR -> True
2007-02-19 21:13:17,192::DEBUG::DO_SAVE -> False
2007-02-19 21:13:17,193::DEBUG::PAR_CLEANUP -> True
2007-02-19 21:13:17,193::DEBUG::CLEANUP_LIST -> []
2007-02-19 21:13:17,193::DEBUG::UMASK -> 493
2007-02-19 21:13:17,193::DEBUG::SEND_GROUP -> False
2007-02-19 21:13:17,193::DEBUG::CREATE_CAT_FOLDERS -> False
2007-02-19 21:13:17,194::DEBUG::CREATE_CAT_SUB -> False
2007-02-19 21:13:17,194::INFO::DOWNLOAD_DIR: /home/roppedoez/news/download
2007-02-19 21:13:17,194::INFO::COMPLETE_DIR: /home/roppedoez/news/complete
2007-02-19 21:13:17,194::INFO::NZB_BACKUP_DIR: /home/roppedoez/news/nzbbackup
2007-02-19 21:13:17,195::INFO::CACHE_DIR: /home/roppedoez/news/cache
2007-02-19 21:13:17,195::INFO::dirscan_dir:
2007-02-19 21:13:17,195::INFO::BANDWITH_LIMIT: 0.0
2007-02-19 21:13:17,195::INFO::schedlines: []
2007-02-19 21:13:17,196::INFO::dirscan_opts: 1
2007-02-19 21:13:17,196::INFO::top_only: True
2007-02-19 21:13:17,196::INFO::auto_sort: False
2007-02-19 21:13:17,196::INFO::[sabnzbd] Loading data for bytes.sab from /home/roppedoez/news/cache/bytes.sab
2007-02-19 21:13:17,197::INFO::[sabnzbd] Loading data for queue.sab from /home/roppedoez/news/cache/queue.sab
2007-02-19 21:13:17,198::INFO::_yenc module... found!
2007-02-19 21:13:17,198::INFO::celementtree module... NOT found!
2007-02-19 21:13:17,198::INFO::par2 binary... found!
2007-02-19 21:13:17,199::INFO::rar binary... found!
2007-02-19 21:13:17,199::INFO::unzip binary... found!
2007-02-19 21:13:17,202::INFO::Starting SABnzbd v0.2.5
2007-02-19 21:13:17,204::DEBUG::[sabnzbd] Starting postprocessor
2007-02-19 21:13:17,206::DEBUG::[sabnzbd] Starting assembler
2007-02-19 21:13:17,216::DEBUG::[sabnzbd] Starting downloader
2007-02-19 21:13:17,217::INFO::Starting web-interface
2007-02-19 21:13:22,449::ERROR::Failed to start web-interface
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./SABnzbd.py", line 307, in main
cherrypy.server.start()
File "/home/roppedoez/.SABnzbd/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cherrypy/_cpserver.py", line 72, in start
Engine.start(self)
File "/home/roppedoez/.SABnzbd/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cherrypy/_cpengine.py", line 104, in start
self._start()
File "/home/roppedoez/.SABnzbd/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cherrypy/_cpserver.py", line 79, in _start
self.start_http_server()
File "/home/roppedoez/.SABnzbd/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cherrypy/_cpserver.py", line 99, in start_http_server
wait_for_free_port(host, port)
File "/home/roppedoez/.SABnzbd/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cherrypy/_cpserver.py", line 252, in wait_for_free_port
raise cherrypy.NotReady("Port not free.")
NotReady: Port not free.
2007-02-19 21:13:22,452::INFO::SABnzbd shutting down...
2007-02-19 21:13:22,452::DEBUG::Stopping downloader
2007-02-19 21:13:22,457::INFO::[downloader] Shutting down
2007-02-19 21:13:22,457::DEBUG::Stopping assembler
2007-02-19 21:13:22,461::INFO::[assembler] Shutting down
2007-02-19 21:13:22,461::DEBUG::Stopping postprocessor
2007-02-19 21:13:22,465::INFO::[nzbqueue] Saving queue
2007-02-19 21:13:22,465::INFO::[sabnzbd] Saving data for queue.sab in /home/roppedoez/news/cache/queue.sab
2007-02-19 21:13:22,466::INFO::[sabnzbd] Saving data for bytes.sab in /home/roppedoez/news/cache/bytes.sab
2007-02-19 21:21:16,314::INFO::--------------------------------
2007-02-19 21:21:16,315::INFO::SABnzbd v0.2.5
2007-02-19 21:21:16,315::INFO::Initializing SABnzbd v0.2.5
2007-02-19 21:21:16,315::DEBUG::FAIL_ON_CRC -> False
2007-02-19 21:21:16,316::DEBUG::CREATE_GROUP_FOLDERS -> False
2007-02-19 21:21:16,316::DEBUG::DO_FILE_JOIN -> True
2007-02-19 21:21:16,316::DEBUG::DO_UNZIP -> True
2007-02-19 21:21:16,317::DEBUG::DO_UNRAR -> True
2007-02-19 21:21:16,317::DEBUG::DO_SAVE -> False
2007-02-19 21:21:16,317::DEBUG::PAR_CLEANUP -> True
2007-02-19 21:21:16,317::DEBUG::CLEANUP_LIST -> []
2007-02-19 21:21:16,318::DEBUG::UMASK -> 493
2007-02-19 21:21:16,318::DEBUG::SEND_GROUP -> False
2007-02-19 21:21:16,318::DEBUG::CREATE_CAT_FOLDERS -> False
2007-02-19 21:21:16,319::DEBUG::CREATE_CAT_SUB -> False
2007-02-19 21:21:16,319::INFO::DOWNLOAD_DIR: /home/roppedoez/news/download
2007-02-19 21:21:16,319::INFO::COMPLETE_DIR: /home/roppedoez/news/complete
2007-02-19 21:21:16,320::INFO::NZB_BACKUP_DIR: /home/roppedoez/news/nzbbackup
2007-02-19 21:21:16,320::INFO::CACHE_DIR: /home/roppedoez/news/cache
2007-02-19 21:21:16,320::INFO::dirscan_dir:
2007-02-19 21:21:16,321::INFO::BANDWITH_LIMIT: 0.0
2007-02-19 21:21:16,321::INFO::schedlines: []
2007-02-19 21:21:16,321::INFO::dirscan_opts: 1
2007-02-19 21:21:16,322::INFO::top_only: True
2007-02-19 21:21:16,322::INFO::auto_sort: False
2007-02-19 21:21:16,322::INFO::[sabnzbd] Loading data for bytes.sab from /home/roppedoez/news/cache/bytes.sab
2007-02-19 21:21:16,323::INFO::[sabnzbd] Loading data for queue.sab from /home/roppedoez/news/cache/queue.sab
2007-02-19 21:21:16,325::INFO::_yenc module... found!
2007-02-19 21:21:16,325::INFO::celementtree module... NOT found!
2007-02-19 21:21:16,325::INFO::par2 binary... found!
2007-02-19 21:21:16,325::INFO::rar binary... found!
2007-02-19 21:21:16,326::INFO::unzip binary... found!
2007-02-19 21:21:16,330::INFO::Starting SABnzbd v0.2.5
2007-02-19 21:21:16,334::DEBUG::[sabnzbd] Starting postprocessor
2007-02-19 21:21:16,418::DEBUG::[sabnzbd] Starting assembler
2007-02-19 21:21:16,419::DEBUG::[sabnzbd] Starting downloader
2007-02-19 21:21:16,420::INFO::Starting web-interface
2007-02-19 21:21:21,671::ERROR::Failed to start web-interface
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./SABnzbd.py", line 307, in main
cherrypy.server.start()
File "/home/roppedoez/.SABnzbd/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cherrypy/_cpserver.py", line 72, in start
Engine.start(self)
File "/home/roppedoez/.SABnzbd/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cherrypy/_cpengine.py", line 104, in start
self._start()
File "/home/roppedoez/.SABnzbd/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cherrypy/_cpserver.py", line 79, in _start
self.start_http_server()
File "/home/roppedoez/.SABnzbd/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cherrypy/_cpserver.py", line 99, in start_http_server
wait_for_free_port(host, port)
File "/home/roppedoez/.SABnzbd/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cherrypy/_cpserver.py", line 252, in wait_for_free_port
raise cherrypy.NotReady("Port not free.")
NotReady: Port not free.
2007-02-19 21:21:21,672::INFO::SABnzbd shutting down...
2007-02-19 21:21:21,672::DEBUG::Stopping downloader
2007-02-19 21:21:21,673::INFO::[downloader] Shutting down
2007-02-19 21:21:21,673::DEBUG::Stopping assembler
2007-02-19 21:21:21,674::INFO::[assembler] Shutting down
2007-02-19 21:21:21,674::DEBUG::Stopping postprocessor
2007-02-19 21:21:21,674::INFO::[nzbqueue] Saving queue
2007-02-19 21:21:21,675::INFO::[sabnzbd] Saving data for queue.sab in /home/roppedoez/news/cache/queue.sab
2007-02-19 21:21:21,675::INFO::[sabnzbd] Saving data for bytes.sab in /home/roppedoez/news/cache/bytes.sab

[felker2]

@roppedoez:

That's an easy one:

2007-02-19 21:13:17,217::INFO::Starting web-interface
2007-02-19 21:13:22,449::ERROR::Failed to start web-interface
<snip>
raise cherrypy.NotReady("Port not free.")
NotReady: Port not free.

So ... I bet you have already something running on port 8080. Change that port in SABnzbd.ini to something else (8888, 9090 or something else), and retry.

And: keep reading the log.

[felker2]

I now discover the unrar-functionality is not working: the rar's are just sitting there in the directory complete/

"Enable Unrar: Enable built-in unrar functionality." is "yes", as can be seen in the ini:

## Enable/disable unraring
## 0 = Disabled
## 1 = Enabled
enable_unrar = 1

And even the log says so:

2007-02-19 22:16:40,508::DEBUG::DO_UNZIP -> True
2007-02-19 22:16:40,509::DEBUG::DO_UNRAR -> True <<<----
2007-02-19 22:16:40,509::DEBUG::DO_SAVE -> False
2007-02-19 22:16:40,509::DEBUG::PAR_CLEANUP -> True

And unrar is on my system:

$ which unrar
/usr/bin/unrar

The logging in the webinterface says:

2007-02-19 22:16:39 Tblabla.nzb False


Stage Par2
[PAR-INFO] Tblabla: => Verified in 509.4s, all files correct
[DEL-INFO] Tblabla: => Deleted 2 file(s)

2007-02-19 20:01:20



So: Tips why unrar is not happening?

[roppedoez]

okay, i restarted my computer, and tried again. the same problems, but another logfile:
2007-02-19 23:32:58,642::INFO::--------------------------------
2007-02-19 23:32:58,642::INFO::SABnzbd v0.2.5
2007-02-19 23:32:58,642::INFO::Initializing SABnzbd v0.2.5
2007-02-19 23:32:58,643::DEBUG::FAIL_ON_CRC -> False
2007-02-19 23:32:58,643::DEBUG::CREATE_GROUP_FOLDERS -> False
2007-02-19 23:32:58,643::DEBUG::DO_FILE_JOIN -> True
2007-02-19 23:32:58,643::DEBUG::DO_UNZIP -> True
2007-02-19 23:32:58,644::DEBUG::DO_UNRAR -> True
2007-02-19 23:32:58,644::DEBUG::DO_SAVE -> False
2007-02-19 23:32:58,644::DEBUG::PAR_CLEANUP -> True
2007-02-19 23:32:58,644::DEBUG::CLEANUP_LIST -> []
2007-02-19 23:32:58,645::DEBUG::UMASK -> 493
2007-02-19 23:32:58,645::DEBUG::SEND_GROUP -> False
2007-02-19 23:32:58,645::DEBUG::CREATE_CAT_FOLDERS -> False
2007-02-19 23:32:58,645::DEBUG::CREATE_CAT_SUB -> False
2007-02-19 23:32:58,645::INFO::DOWNLOAD_DIR: /home/roppedoez/news/download
2007-02-19 23:32:58,646::INFO::COMPLETE_DIR: /home/roppedoez/news/complete
2007-02-19 23:32:58,646::INFO::NZB_BACKUP_DIR: /home/roppedoez/news/nzbbackup
2007-02-19 23:32:58,646::INFO::CACHE_DIR: /home/roppedoez/news/cache
2007-02-19 23:32:58,646::INFO::dirscan_dir:
2007-02-19 23:32:58,647::INFO::BANDWITH_LIMIT: 0.0
2007-02-19 23:32:58,647::INFO::schedlines: []
2007-02-19 23:32:58,647::INFO::dirscan_opts: 1
2007-02-19 23:32:58,647::INFO::top_only: True
2007-02-19 23:32:58,648::INFO::auto_sort: False
2007-02-19 23:32:58,648::INFO::[sabnzbd] Loading data for bytes.sab from /home/roppedoez/news/cache/bytes.sab
2007-02-19 23:32:58,672::INFO::[sabnzbd] Loading data for queue.sab from /home/roppedoez/news/cache/queue.sab
2007-02-19 23:32:58,676::INFO::_yenc module... found!
2007-02-19 23:32:58,676::INFO::celementtree module... NOT found!
2007-02-19 23:32:58,676::INFO::par2 binary... found!
2007-02-19 23:32:58,676::INFO::rar binary... found!
2007-02-19 23:32:58,676::INFO::unzip binary... found!
2007-02-19 23:32:58,679::INFO::Starting SABnzbd v0.2.5
2007-02-19 23:32:58,680::DEBUG::[sabnzbd] Starting postprocessor
2007-02-19 23:32:58,680::DEBUG::[sabnzbd] Starting assembler
2007-02-19 23:32:58,681::DEBUG::[sabnzbd] Starting downloader
2007-02-19 23:32:58,700::INFO::Starting web-interface

maybe there is a problem in this line?: 2007-02-19 23:32:58,676::INFO::celementtree module... NOT found!

[felker2]

My log also says:

sander@kubuntu:~/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd/log$ grep -i elementtree *
SABnzbd.log.4:2007-02-18 21:23:55,161::INFO::celementtree module... NOT found!
sander@kubuntu:~/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd/log
$

and apparantly that doesn't need to be a problem: SABnzbd is running on my system.

So: what happens if you try to connect to your SABnzbd using your webbrowser? What makes you think things are not yet OK?

With
ps -ef | grep -i sabnzb

you can see whether SABnzbd is still running

[roppedoez]

well maybe i don't understand it well, but it seems that when i open my browser there is something wrong with the starting process of SABnzb
the steps i take:

1
roppedoez@roppedoez-desktop:~$ ps -ef | grep -i sabnzb
1000 5984 5966 0 23:28 pts/0 00:00:00 grep -i sabnzb

roppedoez@roppedoez-desktop:~$ ps -ef | grep -i sabnzb
1000 5990 5966 0 23:28 pts/0 00:00:00 grep -i sabnzb

2
roppedoez@roppedoez-desktop:~/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd$ ./SABnzbd.py -d -f SABnzbd.ini

3
when i go to http://127.0.0.1:8080/sabnzbd/ in my webbrowser i get the error:
500 Internal error

The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request.

Powered by CherryPy 2.2.1


4
roppedoez@roppedoez-desktop:~/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd$ ps -ef | grep -i sabnzb
1000 6013 1 0 23:29 ? 00:00:00 /home/roppedoez/.SABnzbd/bin/python -OO ./SABnzbd.py -d -f SABnzbd.ini
1000 6067 5966 0 23:30 pts/0 00:00:00 grep -i sabnzb

[roppedoez]

i get in my browser the menu, were i can fill in my username and password for the webinterface, but after filling in correctly i get the error:
500 Internal error

The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request.

Powered by CherryPy 2.2.1

Okay, maybe i've got something wrong in my .ini

do i have to fill in something by:
## host we should listen on, leave "" for localhost
host = ""

this is my SABnzb.ini (at **** i fill in my information of my newsserver):
__version__ = 016

[misc]
## host we should listen on, leave "" for localhost
host = ""

## port we should listen on
port = 8080

## username for the web-interface
username = "roppedoez"

## password for the web-interface
password = "****"

## web file dir for (custom) Cheetah templates and the default.css file
web_dir = "/home/roppedoez/news/webdir"

## dir to put downloads to, won't be created automatically
download_dir = "/home/roppedoez/news/download"

## dir to put completed downloads to, won't be created automatically
complete_dir = "/home/roppedoez/news/complete"

## If specified, .nzbs fetched by postid (or added by the dirscanner) will
## be backed up to this readable/writeable dir
nzb_backup_dir = "/home/roppedoez/news/nzbbackup"

## dir to store cache and cookie files, windows users should
## leave this at .
cache_dir = "/home/roppedoez/news/cache"

## location of your log directory, "" to disable logging
log_dir = "/home/roppedoez/news/log"

## dirscan directory
## SABnzbd will consume everything in that dir
## while trying to add it to the queue
dirscan_dir = ""

## Scheduling options
## Syntax: minute hour day action
## 1st argument must be 0-59 (minute)
## 2nd argument must be 0-24 (hour)
## 3rd argument must be 1-7 (day) or *
## 4th argument must be resume or pause
##
## e.g schedlines = 0 7 * pause, 0 21 * resume
## to pause SABnzbd at 7:00 and resume operation at 21:00
schedlines = ,

## default options for dirscan added items
## 0 = None
## 1 = +Repair
## 2 = +Unpack
## 3 = +Delete
dirscan_opts = 1

## Enable/disable filejoining
## 0 = Disabled
## 1 = Enabled
enable_filejoin = 1

## Enable/disable unraring
## 0 = Disabled
## 1 = Enabled
enable_unrar = 1

## Enable/disable unzipping
## 0 = Disabled
## 1 = Enabled
enable_unzip = 1

## Enable/disable periodic queue saving
## 0 = Disabled
## 1 = Enabled
## Enable this on unstable systems
enable_save = 0

## Enable/disable
## 0 = Disabled
## 1 = Enabled
## Enable to cleanup par2 files
## (only if verifiying/repairing succeded)
enable_par_cleanup = 1

## should we failover on yenc crc errors
## 0 = no
## 1 = yes
fail_on_crc = 0

## should we download to group folders?
## (i.e /my/download/dir/alt.bin.whatever/somepost/)
## 0 = no
## 1 = yes
create_group_folders = 0

## bandwith limit
## 0 == ignore
## Slowdown factor, try values between 0.01 and 1.0.
bandwith_limit = 0

## Cleanup List
## List of file_extensions that should be deleted
## Example: ".nfo," or ".nfo, .sfv"
cleanup_list = ,

## Only get articles from topmost collection
## Enable for less memory usage
## Disable for more efficient downloading
## 0 = Disabled
## 1 = Enabled
top_only = 1

## Automatically sort by average age
## 0 = No
## 1 = Yes
auto_sort = 0

## Send group command before requesting articles
## 0 = No
## 1 = Yes
send_group = 0

## Article cache limit
## 0 = Disable Cache
## -1 = Unlimited cache
## >0 = Maximum memory (in bytes) to use for cache
cache_limit = 0

## Umask to use for directories/files
umask = 755

[logging]
## max size of SABnzbd.log (in bytes)
max_log_size = 5242880

## how many backups of SABnzbd.log to keep around
log_backups = 5

## enable cherrypy logging
## 0 = no
## 1 = yes
enable_cherrypy_logging = 1

## Fill in your servers here
## If your server doesn't need password auth set
## username and password to ''
## fillserver field must be 0 for non-fillservers (>0 otherwise)
[servers]
# [[server 0]]
# host = ****
# port = 119
# username = ****
# password = ****
# connections = 3
# fillserver = 0
# [[server 1]]
# host = news.myfillserver.com
# port = 119
# username = ""
# password = ""
# connections = 8
# fillserver = 1

## www.newzbin.com support
[newzbin]
username = ""
password = ""

## Place downloads into newzbin.com category folders
## 0 = No
## 1 = Root category only
## 2 = Root category + subcategory
create_category_folders = 0

[felker2]

I solved the not-unrarring problem by selecting the U-option for each file-in-donwload.

[disturbedite]

i'm trying this app out since i couldn't get hellanzb to do crap. i'm on kubuntu 7.04 herd 4. i did everything according to the tutorial (except i installed python 2.5, and i installed the other dependencies from the repos--problem?) and i get this when trying to launch sabnzb with ./SABnzbd.py -d -f SABnzbd.ini:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./SABnzbd.py", line 37, in <module>
import cherrypy
ImportError: No module named cherrypy

i have the python-cherrypy 2.2.1-3ubuntu1 package installed and it says that this version of cherrypy is backwards compatible with version 2.0

can anyone suggest a solution please?

[pirothezero]

Thank you so much for this copy and paste install. I been fightting with hellanzb for the last two weeks on mismatches and thrown exceptions, everything went wrong after i upgraded. No matter what I did it would still error out eventually or stall on a download and never finish it. This has made me one hell of a happy camper.

[pirothezero]

i'm trying this app out since i couldn't get hellanzb to do crap. i'm on kubuntu 7.04 herd 4. i did everything according to the tutorial (except i installed python 2.5, and i installed the other dependencies from the repos--problem?) and i get this when trying to launch sabnzb with ./SABnzbd.py -d -f SABnzbd.ini:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./SABnzbd.py", line 37, in <module>
import cherrypy
ImportError: No module named cherrypy

i have the python-cherrypy 2.2.1-3ubuntu1 package installed and it says that this version of cherrypy is backwards compatible with version 2.0

can anyone suggest a solution please?

Only thing I can think of is that when you were pasting lines over you may have forgotten a line. May double check and try the install of each package again, making sure that when the terminal looks finish to look at the prompt and make sure there isnt a left over instruction ready to be sent.

[baersaerk]

roppedoez, i think you got the exact same problem as i had, it got nothing to do with


## host we should listen on, leave "" for localhost
host = ""

what i did according to the guide was the following

Now edit your SABnzbd.ini
example:
## location of your log directory, "" to disable logging
log_dir = "/home/<YOURUSERNAME>/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd/templates"

wich I understand from actually reading the .ini is wrong, so i created a dir named log and pointed my log files to that location instead, and from looking at the files in templates i understood that it was the html and stuff for the actuall homepage, and back at the ini i found


## web file dir for (custom) Cheetah templates and the default.css file
web_dir = "/home/roppedoez/news/webdir"


wich i pointed at something like ~/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd/templates/, i dont know what you got in your webdir, but it gotta be a bunch of files with html in them and the default.css.

dont remember the exact names now, me beeing at work and all, but i think you understand the solution.

The error for me was that it didnt find the code for the homepage, and i think you got the same problem, even if you dont maybe someone else followed the example to a tee and got the same error.

Except for the faulty example (i think) the guide was extremely good, and i looked for something like it for ages, or at least a couple of days =)

gl and hope it works :)

ps. i'm on edgy

[frolle]

I am getting this error. Can anybody tell me how to avoid it?

kristian@kristian-desktop:~/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd$ ./SABnzbd.py -d -f SABnzbd.ini
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./SABnzbd.py", line 44, in ?
from sabnzbd.interface import *
File "/home/kristian/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd/sabnzbd/interface.py", line 39, in ?
from Cheetah.Template import Template
ImportError: No module named Cheetah.Template
kristian@kristian-desktop:~/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd$

[phenest]

Someone please help me here. I get this same error message with a lot of things I try to install (never done this sort of stuff before).
steve@dimension:~$ cd ~/Desktop/SABInstall_Files/Python-2.4.3
steve@dimension:~/Desktop/SABInstall_Files/Python-2.4.3$ sh ./configure --prefix=/mnt/home/steve/.SABnzbd
checking MACHDEP... linux2
checking EXTRAPLATDIR...
checking for --without-gcc... no
checking for --with-cxx=<compiler>... no
checking for c++... c++
checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C++ compiler works... configure: error: cannot run C++ compiled programs.
If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
See `config.log' for more details.


I was trying to do something similar with Metisse, but I don't know what's going on (or not going on, as the case may be).

[Arumite]

GREAT SCRIPT!!!

Up until I saw your post I had no idea that you could use the terminal that way. I just recently set-up this linux box im on and am still getting used to Ubuntu 7.04. I tried hellanzb but it was a real pain to install. I had to try your guide a few times before I got it right, but it is very user friendly. My problem is this... 505 error when trying to run the webpage. Error log below. I matched it up to some of the other posts and found this one difference, but am having no luck finding a solution on google.

2007-08-06 23:45:47,333::INFO::schedlines: []
2007-08-06 23:45:47,333::INFO::dirscan_opts: 1
2007-08-06 23:45:47,334::INFO::top_only: True
2007-08-06 23:45:47,334::INFO::auto_sort: False
2007-08-06 23:45:47,334::INFO::[sabnzbd] Loading data for bytes.sab from /home/arumite/SABnzbd/cache/bytes.sab
2007-08-06 23:45:47,334::INFO::[sabnzbd] /home/arumite/SABnzbd/cache/bytes.sab missing
2007-08-06 23:45:47,335::INFO::[sabnzbd] Loading data for queue.sab from /home/arumite/SABnzbd/cache/queue.sab
2007-08-06 23:45:47,335::INFO::[sabnzbd] /home/arumite/SABnzbd/cache/queue.sab missing
2007-08-06 23:45:47,337::INFO::_yenc module... found!
2007-08-06 23:45:47,337::INFO::celementtree module... NOT found!
2007-08-06 23:45:47,337::INFO::par2 binary... found!
2007-08-06 23:45:47,338::INFO::rar binary... found!
2007-08-06 23:45:47,338::INFO::unzip binary... found!
2007-08-06 23:45:47,343::INFO::Starting SABnzbd v0.2.5

**Edit - Here is my INI

__version__ = 016



[misc]

## host we should listen on, leave "" for localhost

host = ""



## port we should listen on

port = 8080



## username for the web-interface

username = ""



## password for the web-interface

password = ""



## web file dir for (custom) Cheetah templates and the default.css file

web_dir = "/home/arumite/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd/templates"



## dir to put downloads to, won't be created automatically

download_dir = "/home/arumite/SABnzbd/download"



## dir to put completed downloads to, won't be created automatically

complete_dir = "/home/arumite/SABnzbd/complete"



## If specified, .nzbs fetched by postid (or added by the dirscanner) will

## be backed up to this readable/writeable dir

nzb_backup_dir = "/home/arumite/SABnzbd/backup"



## dir to store cache and cookie files, windows users should

## leave this at .

cache_dir = "/home/arumite/SABnzbd/cache"



## location of your log directory, "" to disable logging

log_dir = "/home/arumite/SABnzbd/log"



## dirscan directory

## SABnzbd will consume everything in that dir

## while trying to add it to the queue

dirscan_dir = "/home/arumite/SABnzbd/dirscan"



## Scheduling options

## Syntax: minute hour day action

## 1st argument must be 0-59 (minute)

## 2nd argument must be 0-24 (hour)

## 3rd argument must be 1-7 (day) or *

## 4th argument must be resume or pause

##

## e.g schedlines = 0 7 * pause, 0 21 * resume

## to pause SABnzbd at 7:00 and resume operation at 21:00

schedlines = ,



## default options for dirscan added items

## 0 = None

## 1 = +Repair

## 2 = +Unpack

## 3 = +Delete

dirscan_opts = 1



## Enable/disable filejoining

## 0 = Disabled

## 1 = Enabled

enable_filejoin = 1



## Enable/disable unraring

## 0 = Disabled

## 1 = Enabled

enable_unrar = 1



## Enable/disable unzipping

## 0 = Disabled

## 1 = Enabled

enable_unzip = 1



## Enable/disable periodic queue saving

## 0 = Disabled

## 1 = Enabled

## Enable this on unstable systems

enable_save = 0



## Enable/disable

## 0 = Disabled

## 1 = Enabled

## Enable to cleanup par2 files

## (only if verifiying/repairing succeded)

enable_par_cleanup = 1



## should we failover on yenc crc errors

## 0 = no

## 1 = yes

fail_on_crc = 0



## should we download to group folders?

## (i.e /my/download/dir/alt.bin.whatever/somepost/)

## 0 = no

## 1 = yes

create_group_folders = 0



## bandwith limit

## 0 == ignore

## Slowdown factor, try values between 0.01 and 1.0.

bandwith_limit = 0



## Cleanup List

## List of file_extensions that should be deleted

## Example: ".nfo," or ".nfo, .sfv"

cleanup_list = ,



## Only get articles from topmost collection

## Enable for less memory usage

## Disable for more efficient downloading

## 0 = Disabled

## 1 = Enabled

top_only = 1



## Automatically sort by average age

## 0 = No

## 1 = Yes

auto_sort = 0



## Send group command before requesting articles

## 0 = No

## 1 = Yes

send_group = 0



## Article cache limit

## 0 = Disable Cache

## -1 = Unlimited cache

## >0 = Maximum memory (in bytes) to use for cache

cache_limit = 0



## Umask to use for directories/files

umask = 755



[logging]

## max size of SABnzbd.log (in bytes)

max_log_size = 5242880



## how many backups of SABnzbd.log to keep around

log_backups = 5



## enable cherrypy logging

## 0 = no

## 1 = yes

enable_cherrypy_logging = 1



## Fill in your servers here

## If your server doesn't need password auth set

## username and password to ''

## fillserver field must be 0 for non-fillservers (>0 otherwise)

[servers]

# [[server 0]]

# host = *******

# port = 119

# username =
******
# password = ******

# connections = 4

# fillserver = 0

# [[server 1]]

# host = news.myfillserver.com

# port = 119

# username = ""

# password = ""

# connections = 8

# fillserver = 1



## www.newzbin.com support

[newzbin]

username = ""

password = ""



## Place downloads into newzbin.com category folders

## 0 = No

## 1 = Root category only

## 2 = Root category + subcategory

create_category_folders = 0


you'll notice that it says the bytes.sab and the queue.sab files are missing. I tried creating dummy documents in the directory, but that didn't fix it either. All the 5 -6 results I got from google resulted in foreign language posts.

I am running amd64 btw. Only change that I noticed was replacing the _i386.deb package with _amd64.deb. After that everything installed oh so smoothe like.

[Arumite]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

YAY! I got it working. Now however my connection speed remains at 0. it shows the file queued, but it is not downloading

[Arumite]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Fixed that too. For some reason even though I pre-entered the news server info directly into the .ini, I still had to manually add it in throught the web-browser.

Thanks for a great guide!!! and forum!!!

[nosscire]

Hopefully this thread isn't too old to get some help from :)

Followed the guide, but can't get it to work. When i run ./SABnzbd.py -d -f SABnzbd.ini i don't get any errors, accually nothing seam to happen at all.
However, I did try not putting anything into the log directory tag, and then i get an error about that, so i guess something's wrong.

Here's my ini file.

__version__ = 016



[misc]

## host we should listen on, leave "" for localhost

host = ""



## port we should listen on

port = 8080



## username for the web-interface

username = ""



## password for the web-interface

password = ""



## web file dir for (custom) Cheetah templates and the default.css file

web_dir = "/home/simon/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd/templates"



## dir to put downloads to, won't be created automatically

download_dir = "/home/simon/tmp"



## dir to put completed downloads to, won't be created automatically

complete_dir = "/home/simon/downloads"



## If specified, .nzbs fetched by postid (or added by the dirscanner) will

## be backed up to this readable/writeable dir

nzb_backup_dir = ""



## dir to store cache and cookie files, windows users should

## leave this at .

cache_dir = ""



## location of your log directory, "" to disable logging

log_dir = "/home/simon/log"



## dirscan directory

## SABnzbd will consume everything in that dir

## while trying to add it to the queue

dirscan_dir = "/home/simon/nzb"



## Scheduling options

## Syntax: minute hour day action

## 1st argument must be 0-59 (minute)

## 2nd argument must be 0-24 (hour)

## 3rd argument must be 1-7 (day) or *

## 4th argument must be resume or pause

##

## e.g schedlines = 0 7 * pause, 0 21 * resume

## to pause SABnzbd at 7:00 and resume operation at 21:00

schedlines = ,



## default options for dirscan added items

## 0 = None

## 1 = +Repair

## 2 = +Unpack

## 3 = +Delete

dirscan_opts = 3



## Enable/disable filejoining

## 0 = Disabled

## 1 = Enabled

enable_filejoin = 1



## Enable/disable unraring

## 0 = Disabled

## 1 = Enabled

enable_unrar = 1



## Enable/disable unzipping

## 0 = Disabled

## 1 = Enabled

enable_unzip = 1



## Enable/disable periodic queue saving

## 0 = Disabled

## 1 = Enabled

## Enable this on unstable systems

enable_save = 1



## Enable/disable

## 0 = Disabled

## 1 = Enabled

## Enable to cleanup par2 files

## (only if verifiying/repairing succeded)

enable_par_cleanup = 1



## should we failover on yenc crc errors

## 0 = no

## 1 = yes

fail_on_crc = 0



## should we download to group folders?

## (i.e /my/download/dir/alt.bin.whatever/somepost/)

## 0 = no

## 1 = yes

create_group_folders = 0



## bandwith limit

## 0 == ignore

## Slowdown factor, try values between 0.01 and 1.0.

bandwith_limit = 0



## Cleanup List

## List of file_extensions that should be deleted

## Example: ".nfo," or ".nfo, .sfv"

cleanup_list = ,



## Only get articles from topmost collection

## Enable for less memory usage

## Disable for more efficient downloading

## 0 = Disabled

## 1 = Enabled

top_only = 1



## Automatically sort by average age

## 0 = No

## 1 = Yes

auto_sort = 0



## Send group command before requesting articles

## 0 = No

## 1 = Yes

send_group = 0



## Article cache limit

## 0 = Disable Cache

## -1 = Unlimited cache

## >0 = Maximum memory (in bytes) to use for cache

cache_limit = 0



## Umask to use for directories/files

umask = 755



[logging]

## max size of SABnzbd.log (in bytes)

max_log_size = 5242880



## how many backups of SABnzbd.log to keep around

log_backups = 5



## enable cherrypy logging

## 0 = no

## 1 = yes

enable_cherrypy_logging = 1



## Fill in your servers here

## If your server doesn't need password auth set

## username and password to ''

## fillserver field must be 0 for non-fillservers (>0 otherwise)

[servers]

[[newshosting]]

host = *********

port = 119

username = ******

password = ***********

connections = 8

fillserver = 0

# [[server 1]]

# host = news.myfillserver.com

# port = 119

# username = ""

# password = ""

# connections = 8

# fillserver = 1



## www.newzbin.com support

[newzbin]

username = ""

password = ""



## Place downloads into newzbin.com category folders

## 0 = No

## 1 = Root category only

## 2 = Root category + subcategory

create_category_folders = 0


As Far as I can see, there
s no problem in here. All hep appriciated.

[shamrock_uk]

Helpful stuff

Just wanted to say thanks for posting, that fixed it for me! :)

[AnalogRetentive]

i'm trying this app out since i couldn't get hellanzb to do crap. i'm on kubuntu 7.04 herd 4. i did everything according to the tutorial (except i installed python 2.5, and i installed the other dependencies from the repos--problem?) and i get this when trying to launch sabnzb with ./SABnzbd.py -d -f SABnzbd.ini:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./SABnzbd.py", line 37, in <module>
import cherrypy
ImportError: No module named cherrypy

i have the python-cherrypy 2.2.1-3ubuntu1 package installed and it says that this version of cherrypy is backwards compatible with version 2.0

can anyone suggest a solution please?

I am getting this error. Can anybody tell me how to avoid it?

kristian@kristian-desktop:~/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd$ ./SABnzbd.py -d -f SABnzbd.ini
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./SABnzbd.py", line 44, in ?
from sabnzbd.interface import *
File "/home/kristian/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd/sabnzbd/interface.py", line 39, in ?
from Cheetah.Template import Template
ImportError: No module named Cheetah.Template
kristian@kristian-desktop:~/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd$

I was getting a very similar error to both of you: that I didn't have zlib stuff. According to this link, it's because you didn't have [package] installed before configuring and compiling python, and re-running that step should fix it.

http://www.zope.org/Members/beacon/install_instructions
(This section: "Other Notes: ImportError: No module named zlib")

This makes perfect sense for me, because I accidentally missed this line from the original post when doing my install:

apt-get install libbz2-dev zlib1g-dev

So I ran the above code, and then re-ran the ./configure and make lines, and viola! problem solved!

[cchester]

Here is a script to install SABnzbd from source on Dapper 6.06

1) Paste this code into your terminal window:


sudo apt-get install libbz2-dev zlib1g-dev

sudo apt-get install g++
sudo apt-get install make
sudo apt-get install par2

mkdir ~/.SABnzbd
mkdir ~/Desktop/SABInstall_Files
cd ~/Desktop/SABInstall_Files
wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4.3/Python-2.4.3.tgz
wget http://download.cherrypy.org/cherrypy/2.2.1/CherryPy-2.2.1.tar.gz
wget http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/cheetahtemplate/Cheetah-1.0.tar.gz
wget http://effbot.org/downloads/elementtree-1.2.6-20050316.tar.gz
wget http://sabnzbd.sourceforge.net/yenc-0.3.tar.gz
wget http://kambing.vlsm.org/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/u/unrar-nonfree/unrar_3.5.4-0.1_i386.deb
wget http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/sabnzbd/SABnzbd-0.2.5.tar.gz

sudo dpkg -i unrar_3.5.4-0.1_i386.deb

tar -xzvf Python-2.4.3.tgz
tar -xzvf CherryPy-2.2.1.tar.gz
tar -xzvf Cheetah-1.0.tar.gz
tar -xzvf elementtree-1.2.6-20050316.tar.gz
tar -xzvf yenc-0.3.tar.gz
tar -xzvf SABnzbd-0.2.5.tar.gz


2) Change in this code <YOURUSERNAME> to your Ubuntu login name
and then paste it in your terminal window.

cd ~/Desktop/SABInstall_Files/Python-2.4.3
./configure --prefix=/home/<YOURUSERNAME>/.SABnzbd
make && make install

3) Now copy and paste the rest of the code in the terminal window.


cd ~/Desktop/SABInstall_Files/CherryPy-2.2.1
~/.SABnzbd/bin/python setup.py install

cd ~/Desktop/SABInstall_Files/Cheetah-1.0
~/.SABnzbd/bin/python setup.py install

cd ~/Desktop/SABInstall_Files/elementtree-1.2.6-20050316
~/.SABnzbd/bin/python setup.py install

cd ~/Desktop/SABInstall_Files/yenc-0.3
~/.SABnzbd/bin/python setup.py install

cd ~/Desktop/SABInstall_Files/SABnzbd-0.2.5
mkdir ~/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd
cp -R SABnzbd.ini.sample SABnzbd.py sabnzbd/ templates/ ~/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd
cd ~/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd
mv SABnzbd.ini.sample SABnzbd.ini

cd ~/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd
chmod +x SABnzbd.py
mkdir ~/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd/nzb
mkdir ~/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd/nzb/backup
chmod -R +x ~/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd/sabnzbd


4) Finish it up

Edit files located in /home/<YOURUSERNAME>/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd
Now edit your SABnzbd.py

Change the first line in SABnzbd.py
#!/usr/bin/python -OO
to
#!/home/<YOURUSERNAME>/.SABnzbd/bin/python -OO

Now edit your SABnzbd.ini
example:
## location of your log directory, "" to disable logging
log_dir = "/home/<YOURUSERNAME>/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd/templates"

SABnzbd will not run unless the directories are correctly edited. DO NOT USE the same directory for downloaded files and completed files. They must be different. Make sure to set a directory for the log files. If you have a problem look at the log file in the same directory to see what the error is. It will be easily fixed if there is a configuration problem. The log file is great at telling you why the program did not run.

RUN IT
cd ~/.SABnzbd/sabnzbd
./SABnzbd.py -d -f SABnzbd.ini

load your webbrowser and goto the following address:
http://127.0.0.1:8080/sabnzbd/

Hi,

I followed everythng you said with no errors along the way but when I run your last line that starts "load your web browser" it just returns to the command line with the directory I am in no error message or anything.

I noticed you said to do this for someone else ps -ef | grep -i sabnzb so I ran it and this was my result chris 17290 6143 0 01:45 pts/1 00:00:00 grep -i sabnzb hope this helps you in helping me figure this out.

I have hellanzb installed correctly and it works so do I need to have it running to use the SABnzbd GUI?

Thanks for any help on this. Oh I am using fiesty.

[rascalli]

do you have a browser installed than ?

[cchester]

Yes I have firefox installed. Oh and I am doing this in linux just to clarify since I see this is for windows to.

Thanks for any more help.

[felker2]

Cool: the instruction still works for Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon!

I had requested for introducing a package SABnzbd in Ubuntu 7.10, but after some work was done on that it was bounced because of license issues. :(

BTW: the notation on http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-320475.html introduces some strange spaces in the URL/filenames. Avoid that page and use http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=320475

[felker2]

With the new SABnzbd+ / SABnzbdplus 3.0 on Ubuntu / Kubuntu 7.10 things have become very easy. The commands below are all that's needed. Make sure "universe" is enabled in package management.


sudo apt-get install python-cherrypy python-cheetah python-elementtree python-yenc python-celementtree python-feedparser unrar unzip par2

wget http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/sabnzbdplus/sabnzbd-0.3.0rc4.zip
unzip sabnzbd-0.3.0rc4.zip
cd sabnzbd-0.3.0rc4/
python SABnzbd.py


Just configure the newsserver in the SABnzbd webGUI and everything is OK.

HTH

[Distortedgamer]

There is a way to start it from the command line. I found it once, but can't find it now. Can anyone help me and let me know how to START the program???

*EDIT*

Nevermind I figured it out. I was in the ~/.sabnzbd folder and not the folder with all of the actual .py files in it. I feel embarrassed :(