Questions on CentOS install guide (issues)

[poing]

Hi all,

About 20 years ago, I used to have a linux server, it was quite fun. Went at it again with CentOS 7 Basic, easily installed and configured samba and plex media server, configured the firewall, ... It was all coming back to me

I had a hard time installing sabnzbd, at the end it "works". But:

1. I'm missing: python-yenc and unrar. Yum could not find these packages. Do I need them and how can I get them?
2. Step 5 is confusing. Should I go to /opt and execute the command to get /opt/sabnzbd? Am i good here?
3. Step 6 is confusing. /opt/usenet doesn't exist, I changed the rights to /opt/sabnzbd that was created in step 5 and that works. Am i good here?

For info: python version is 2.7.5

[sander]

Which guide did you follow.

Yes, you need unrar and sabyenc.


https://sabnzbd.org/wiki/installation/i ... entos-rhel is the (a?) guide. I don't know how uptodate it is, but it does contain the instruction for 'unrar'.

https://sabnzbd.org/wiki/installation/sabyenc.html is about sabyenc.

[poing]

Which guide did you follow.

Yes, you need unrar and sabyenc.

Yes Indeed that guide on the Sabnzbd Wiki for CentOS (new users can't post links, I can't even quote yours).
Unfortunately unrar or sabyenc are not in the repositories so I can't install it via yum (not found).

Since they're needed, I'll give them a try without yum.

Update: the sabyenc link was the perfect guide! Also installed unrar.
Thanks!

[sander]

Great

[sander]

PS:

Welcome back in the Linux world!

Questions:
- which Linux distro did you use 20 years ago?
- why did you choose CentOS now?

[poing]

PS:

Welcome back in the Linux world!

Questions:
- which Linux distro did you use 20 years ago?
- why did you choose CentOS now?

Thanks!

It was Red Hat, terminal only on a Cyrix PC running Firewall and NAT to bypass the broadband provider's restrictions (only one pc ) and be more secure. Learned a lot to get it working (I remember network card drivers were difficult). Had a Gentoo episode (about 15 years ago). Great community, manuals, ... Never got the desktop working on VMWare.

CentOS 7 Basic: I searched for "stable lightweight linux distribution with good support community" and it had to be installed rather quickly (no Gentoo). What I read on CentOS (made for servers, actively supported by Red Hat, support to 2024, ...) was very appealing. Installation was quick, after that I did have to learn everything all over again (it didn't even have ifconfig). Enough information on the internet these days, this was my frist support question

Now that it is done, I think I'm going to buy some disks and play with ZFS.

[sander]

Now that it is done, I think I'm going to buy some disks and play with ZFS.

ZFS? Nice!


Tip / request: please use SABnzbd 2.3.9 for a few weeks. If that works for you and you understand SABnzbd ... maybe nice for you (and us) to try SABnzbd based on python 3 ... It's now in something a alfa stage, so it works but you can & will find bugs.

See https://sabnzbd.org/wiki/extra/python3.html for insctructions, also for CentOS. You will need to use one or two git commands ... good for you

I use SABnzbd-python3 on my Ubuntu, and it works, and now and then I find & register & analyze a problem.