Install NZBGet on Banana Pi Pro Arch Linux •

NZBGet – the lightweight, easy to use usenet downloader. With a beautiful and easy to use user interface downloading NZBs will now be easy. Using the pre-made bash-script from the official NZBGet website your installation will be simple to install and even simpler to update from within the NZBGet web interface. Afterwards you can set it up with CouchPotato, Sonarr, SickRage, Mylar, and Headphones to automate your usenet experience on the Banana Pi Pro running Arch Linux. This tutorial assumes you have installed Arch using this guide. If you are looking to configure NZBGet follow this guide.

Pi Unit	Processor	RAM	RAM Bus	Network	WiFi	USB	SATA	Cost
Raspberry Pi 3	1.2 GHz ARMv8 Quad Core	1 GB DDR2	450 MHz	100 Mbit	Yes	4	No	$35
Raspberry Pi 2	900 MHz ARMv7 Quad Core	1 GB DDR2	450 MHz	100 Mbit	No	4	No	$35.00
Raspberry Pi	700 MHz ARMv6 Single Core	512 MB SDRAM	400 MHz	100 Mbit	No	4	No	$25
Banana Pi	1 GHz ARMv7 Dual Core	1 GB DDR3	432 MHz	Gigabit	No	2	Yes	$36.99
Banana Pi Pro	1 GHz ARMv7 Dual Core	1 GB DDR3	432 MHz	Gigabit	Yes	2	Yes	$45.00

Install NZBGet on Banana Pi Pro Arch Linux

Install wget, unrar, unzip and p7zip. The Arch repository has the official unrar, not the free unrar which can cause warnings.

sudo pacman -Syy wget unrar unzip p7zip

Confirm the depencies install by typing

Download the official NZBGet Installer by copying and pasting all 3 lines

wget -O - http://nzbget.net/info/nzbget-version-linux.json | \
  sed -n "s/^.*stable-download.*: \"\(.*\)\".*/\1/p" | \
  wget --no-check-certificate -i - -O nzbget-latest-bin-linux.run

Run the Official NZBGet Installer to the install directory

sudo sh nzbget-latest-bin-linux.run --destdir /opt/nzbget

Set the NZBGet working directory owner as Banana Pi

sudo chown -R bananapi:bananapi /opt/nzbget

Change the NZBGet Daemon user to the the Banana Pi user

sudo sed -i "/DaemonUsername=/c\DaemonUsername=bananapi" /opt/nzbget/nzbget.conf

Autostart NZBGet on Arch Linux

Make a NZBGet systemd script file

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/nzbget.service

Paste the NZBGet systemd script for Arch Linux on the Banana Pi

[Unit]
Description=NZBGet Daemon
Documentation=http://nzbget.net/Documentation
After=network.target

[Service]
User=bananapi
Group=bananapi
Type=forking
ExecStart=/opt/nzbget/nzbget -c /opt/nzbget/nzbget.conf -D
ExecStop=/opt/nzbget/nzbget -Q
ExecReload=/opt/nzbget/nzbget -O
KillMode=process
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Enable the NZBGet systemd service to autostart NZBGet on boot

sudo systemctl enable nzbget

Start the NZBGet service on Arch linux

sudo systemctl start nzbget

Now you can access NZBGet on the Banana Pi Pro with Arch Linux on port 6789, the default username is nzbget and password is tegbzn6789.

When NZBGet updates are released you can now upgrade from the NZBGet web interface.

Follow this guide to configure NZBGet.