Sickrage & Couchpotato

I've split these instructions into their own section just to make it easier to understand. We're going to go through the installation of Sickrage and Couchpotato on Ubuntu 14.04 using command line only to reduce the resources needed on the machine.

Let's get started with the installation of  Sickrage:

sudo apt-get install git-core python python-cheetah
cd ~


sudo git clone https://github.com/SickRage/SickRage.git /opt/sickrage

sudo cp /opt/sickrage/runscripts/init.ubuntu /etc/init.d/sickrage

sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/sickrage

sudo chown username:username -R /opt/sickrage

Time to edit a config file:

sudo nano /etc/default/sickrage

Now paste this lot in changing user to the name of the user you are installing it to



# COPY THIS FILE TO /etc/default/sickrage
SR_HOME=/opt/sickrage
SR_DATA=/opt/sickrage/
SR_USER=username

Set some permission

sudo chmod +x /etc/default/sickrage

Now time to get it running on boot

sudo update-rc.d sickrage defaults

And you can start it with the following command and then connect to http://machine:8081 to finish off setting it up.

sudo chmod 0777 /var/run/sickrage

sudo service sickrage start


And now it's time for Couchpotato:

sudo git clone https://github.com/RuudBurger/CouchPotatoServer.git /opt/CouchPotato

Set the owner of the file, replacing username with your username

sudo chown -R username:username /opt/CouchPotato

Edit a config file

sudo nano /etc/default/couchpotato

Then paste this lot in replacing username again

CP_HOME=/opt/CouchPotato
CP_USER=username
CP_PIDFILE=/home/username/.couchpotato.pid
CP_DATA=/opt/CouchPotato

Now we set permissions and get it to run on startup

sudo cp /opt/CouchPotato/init/ubuntu /etc/init.d/couchpotato
sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/couchpotato
cd /etc/init.d/
sudo update-rc.d couchpotato defaults

And finally start it with sudo service couchpotato start

Now connect to it with a browser at http://machinename:5050 to finish the setup.