How to install NZBGet from Source on Ubuntu

Here is a quick and simple guide to get you going with NZBGet. For those of you that don't know NZBGet is a usenet client. Similar to that of SABnzbd only NZBGet is designed for performance. Thus making it perfect for low power systems.

Please understand that you are doing this at your own risk. While these commands will get nzbget up and running, I cannot be held responsible if something goes terribly wrong. However, if this does happen I'm here to help.

Lets begin!

Install

Simply open terminal or ssh into your Ubuntu machine to run these which will download NZBGet (including dependencies), compile, and install.

Code:

sudo apt-get install -y build-essential libncurses5-dev libssl-dev libxml2-dev git subversion unrar unzip p7zip-full

Code:

sudo svn co https://svn.code.sf.net/p/nzbget/code/trunk /opt/nzbget-svn
cd /opt/nzbget-svn
sudo touch configure
sudo touch Makefile.in
sudo touch config.h.in
sudo ./configure --with-tlslib=OpenSSL
sudo make
sudo make install
sudo make install-conf

Hard part is over, now to get nzbget running automatically upon boot here is what you need to do.

Code:

sudo nano /etc/init/nzbget.conf

Paste in the following then press CTRL + X then Y and finally enter. Feel free to edit the "setuid root" & "setgid root" lines with whatever user you wish to runas.

Code:

#description "NZBGet upstart script"
#author "xzKinGzxBuRnzx @ Digiex.net"

setuid nzbget
setgid nzbget

start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [016]

respawn

script
exec nzbget -D
end script

pre-stop script
exec nzbget -Q
end script

Now to start NZBGet you simply run this command

Code:

sudo service nzbget start

Thats it! You've successfully installed NZBGet! Open up a browser and go to http://127.0.0.1:6789/ you'll be asked for a password, use username nzbget and password tegbzn6789

Update

If you are looking to update NZBGet. Just run these commands.

Note: Make sure NZBGet is not running before doing this.

Code:

sudo service nzbget stop
cd /opt/nzbget-svn
sudo svn update
sudo ./configure --with-tlslib=OpenSSL
sudo make
sudo make install

Remove

If you ever needed or wanted to remove NZBGet completely then this is how to do so.

Code:

sudo rm -rf /opt/nzbget-svn
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/share/nzbget
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/share/doc/nzbget
sudo rm /usr/local/bin/nzbget

sudo apt-get remove --purge -y build-essential libncurses5-dev libssl-dev libxml2-dev git subversion unrar unzip p7zip-full
sudo apt-get autoremove --purge -y

sudo rm /etc/init/nzbget.conf

Config

The config file for nzbget is located at '/usr/local/etc/nzbget.conf'. You may edit it by using your normal text editor, nzbget webui or by running this command below.

Code:

sudo nano /usr/local/etc/nzbget.conf

For additional information please refer to NZBGet Documentation