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NzbGet (Usetnet)

NzbGet is a solid long-time usenet downloader. There are others, but i will focus on this one.

First simply emerge it:

> emerge -v nzbget

This will also add the nzbget user, for will we will add it to the “media” group (see the /etc/group file i described in the first sections). Now create the data folder as usual under /data/daemons:

> mkdir /data/daemons/nzbget > chown nzbget:media -R /data/daemons/nzbget

and move the Gentoo default configuration file for nzbgetd to there:

> mv /etc/nzbgetd.conf /data/daemons/nzbget

and configure the daemon to use it by editing /etc/conf.d/nzbget, also specify the user and group for the daemon to run as:

# Which user to run nzbget as NZBGET_USER=“nzbget” NZBGET_GROUP=“media” # Location of config file NZBGET_CONFIGFILE=“/data/daemons/nzbget/nzbgetd.conf”

Now, setup the daemon to start at boot, and start it now:

> rc-update add nzbget default > /etc/init.d/nzbget start

Now you need to head to Prowlarr web GUI and add nzbget as downloader, this will make it available to all the *Arr's.

At this point, head to the NzbGet web GUI (localhost:6789) and configure it by adding at least one usenet server! As usual, this will be later on masked via the reverse proxy.

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