SickChill installation CENTOS 6

CENTOS 6

The following instructions are for installing SickChill on CentOS 6.

The installation should also be applicable to RHEL 6 and Fedora (12, 13, or 14) with minimal changes.

The installation assumes that you're not using the root user to install/run sickchill - the entries for user:group throughout the document will have to be modified to match your user configuration.

1. Install rpmFusion non-free repository
   The repository is needed for unrar installation

   sudo rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/el/updates/6/i386/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-6-1.noarch.rpm

2. Install prerequisites

    sudo yum install python-cheetah unrar wget git

3. Clone sickchill git repo

   sudo git clone https://github.com/SickChill/SickChill.git /usr/share/sickchill

4. Set correct ownership

   chown -R user:group /usr/share/sickchill

5. Copy init file to system init

   sudo cp /usr/share/sickchill/init.fedora /etc/init.d/sickchill

6. Make init file executable

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

7. Modify init file

   sudo sed 's|/etc/sysconfig/sickbeard|/etc/sysconfig/sickchill|' -i /etc/init.d/sickchill

8. Create configuration file /etc/sysconfig/sickchill with the following content

   # SickChill service configuration
   
   #run SickChill as
   SC_USER=media
   SC_HOME=/usr/share/sickchill
   SC_DATA=/usr/share/sickchill
   SC_PIDFILE=/usr/share/sickchill/sickchill.pid
   
   #gui address, eg: \${protocol}://\${host}:\${port}/home/
   protocol=http
   host='<<< hostname or IP >>>' #example host=mymachine
   port='<<<Desired Port>>>'     #example port=8081
   
   #leave blank if no username/password is required to access the gui
   username=
   password=
   
   #use nice, ionice, taskset to start SickChill
   nicecmd=
   #  example: nicecmd="nice -n 19 ionice -c3"

9. Add the sickchill service to system services

   sudo chkconfig --add sickchill

10. Configure sickchill service to start on system startup

    sudo chkconfig sickchill on

11. Start sickchill service

    sudo service sickchill start

All done, verify that SickChill is accessible at gui address, eg: http://mymachine:8080/sickchill

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