Install FlexGet on Arch Linux
FlexGet is a download manager similar to NZBGet or uTorrent Server except that it is Command Line only and has no Graphical interface. It can handle torrents as well as nzb’s and can be configured to download content from many sources including rss. Since it has no graphical interface it can be quite complicated to configure. On the other hand it is not limited to downloading specific media types like movies so it is very powerful in how it can be configured. If couchpotato, sonarr and headphones just isn’t enough, Flexget can fill in the gaps.
Setup Credentials
Create a system account and group.
sudo useradd -r -s /bin/false flexget
Optionally add the user to secondary groups.
sudo usermod -a -G nzbget,utserver flexget
Install FlexGet
FlexGet can be installed with flexget or flexget-git package from AUR. It requires a large number of pre-requisites and 2 of those are broken and currently not maintained. As an alternative FlexGet can be installed with python package manager.
Install python 2.
sudo pacman -S python2
Install python package packager.
sudo pacman -S python2-pip
Install the package with pip.
sudo pip2 install flexget
Configure FlexGet
Create the configuration directory.
sudo mkdir /var/lib/flexget
Create the configuration file.
sudo nano/var/lib/flexget/config.yml
Copy a basic test configuration and save the file.
tasks:
test task:
rss: http://dominicm.com/wp-rss.php/
Refer to flexget.com for information on how to configure FlexGet.
Set ownership on the configuration directory.
sudo chown flexget:flexget -R /var/lib/flexget
Create the download directory.
sudo mkdir /mnt/downloads/flexget
Set the ownership on the download directory.
sudo chown flexget:flexget /mnt/downloads/flexget
Set the permissions on the download directory.
sudo chmod 775 /mnt/downloads/flexget
Test the configuration file.
sudo flexget -c /var/lib/flexget/config.yml --test execute
Run FlexGet
Create a new systemd service.
sudo nano /usr/lib/systemd/system/flexget.service
Copy the script and save the systemd service.
[Unit] Description=Flexget Daemon After=network.target [Service] Type=simple User=flexget Group=flexget UMask=000 WorkingDirectory=/var/lib/flexget ExecStart=/usr/bin/flexget daemon start ExecStop=/usr/bin/flexget daemon stop ExecReload=/usr/bin/flexget daemon reload [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target
Start the systemd service.
sudo systemctl start flexget
Enable systemd service to run on boot.
sudo systemctl enable flexget