Installation Instructions

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Table of Contents Using Docker Manual Method Install python 2.7.x Get Sick Beard source Related Stuff Manual setup on old systems

Using Docker

The easy way to get everything running in a minute:

• Install docker and git via your OS package manager
• git clone https://github.com/junalmeida/Sick-Beard.git
• cd Sick-Beard
• docker-compose up -d
• Wait for it to startup then access your browser at localhost:8081.

See docker-compose.yml for path and port customization.

Manual Method

Install python 2.7.x

You need to install python and cheetah only once. To check if it is installed just type "python -V" in a terminal window. In the unlikely event it's not already installed you can simply install it with your OSes package manager. For Windows and Mac OSX, download here: http://www.python.org/download/

Get Sick Beard source

• Download https://github.com/junalmeida/Sick-Beard/archive/master.zip
• Extract the downloaded file. You can rename and move the extracted folder.

Start Sick Beard

• cd Sick-Beard
• pip install -r requirements.txt
• python SickBeard.py

Force an Update to tell sickbeard the current version.

Related Stuff

If your torrents have compressed files (rar, zip, etc), you can use the scripts provided in the autoProcessTV folder.

Manual setup on old systems

If you have a distribution that ships with python 2.6 or older, please refer to: @amitkeret post