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Sick Beard Install, Setup, & Configuration Guide for Ubuntu & Linux Mint

Note: This guide is now deprecated. The new guide can be found here.

Introduction

Welcome! This guide is written with a heavy heart. Despite all hope Newzbin has been (at least temporarily) nerfed. This guide is dedicated to Newzbin’s memory, innovation, and awesome service.

This guide is also written with hope that by some stroke of rational, technologically understanding, jurisprudence the site’s appeal will actually succeed. Or, failing that, the site will be migrated to a more accepting state, or the site will open source its code so that others might succeed where it may have failed.

With that aside, Sick Beard (the actual focus of this guide) is a very neat application. After hearing about Newzbin’s court loss I loaded it up (right after completing the Episode Butler guide) and found that I really like it.

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Sick Beard Usenet PVR Preview

Briefly

Sick Beard is an application for sorting, renaming, and auto-matically downloading episodic content from Usenet and (limitedly) torrents. This program is currently in early alpha phase and I have not yet attempted tried to run it.

I am mainly posting this as it looks like a potentially promising program that could at some point become a part of SABnzbd+ and replace or complement either Episode Butler, or Series Rename, or both.

Edit: I am currently running this program and working on a complete installation, setup, and configuration guide for Ubuntu and Linux Mint.

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