Install SickRage Ubuntu 14.04 and Newer

SickRage is a hot new fork of the classic Sickbeard for periodic media shows. It uses multiple databases to resolve scene naming issues found in Sickbeard. You can use torrents and usenet to download your media and it is quite customizable. It can be valuable addition for your automated home media server. This SickRage guide was created on a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04.

If you are looking for an Ubuntu 15.x guide see here

Install SickRage Ubuntu

Update repositories first

sudo apt-get update

Now upgrade existing packages

sudo apt-get upgrade -y

Install SickRage dependencies

sudo apt-get install libxslt1-dev libxslt1.1 libxml2-dev libxml2 libssl-dev libffi-dev python-pip python-dev libssl-dev git -y

Build the latest unrar from source

sudo apt-get install build-essential -y
wget http://rarlab.com/rar/unrarsrc-5.2.7.tar.gz
tar -xvf unrarsrc-5.2.7.tar.gz
cd unrar
sudo make -f makefile
sudo install -v -m755 unrar /usr/bin

Install pyOpenSSL

sudo pip install pyopenssl==0.13.1

If you get a 509 error install a newer version of pyOpenSSL

sudo pip intall pyeopenssl==0.14

Git clone the SickRage installation

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

Change ownership to your username

sudo chown username:username -R /opt/sickrage

Test to see if you can run SickRage

python /opt/sickrage/SickBeard.py -d

You may get this error about handlers
No handlers could be found for logger "sickbeard". We'll fix that.

You may also see this error.
Datadir must be writeable '/opt/sickrage'

The upstart script below solves this error too

You should be able to access SickRage at http://ip.address:8081 after running the upstart script.

Autostart SickRage

Choose either the init.d script or upstart script. Upstart can have some issues so it's advised to try the init.d script first.

SickRage init.d Script

Create the SickRage default file for Ubuntu

sudo nano /etc/default/sickrage

Paste this code, change username to the user you want to run SickRage as

SR_USER=username
SR_HOME=/opt/sickrage
SR_DATA=/opt/sickrage
SR_PIDFILE=/home/username/.sickrage.pid

Copy the default SickRage init.d script

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

If you get an error the SickRage script may have moved in their git repo, find it with this command

sudo find / -name init.ubuntu

It told me it was here

/opt/sickrage/runscripts/init.ubuntu

So the new copy command to get the init script is this, source location is first

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

Make the SickRage init.d script executable

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

Update the SickRage init.d script defaults

sudo update-rc.d sickrage defaults

Start SickRage like this

sudo service sickrage start

SickRage Upstart Script

If you have the init.d script working there is no reason to use the upstart script.

Install upstart even though it should be included on Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install upstart

Create the SickRage upstart file

sudo nano /etc/init/sickrage.conf

Paste this in and replace username with your username.

#author "HTPCGuides.com"
#description "Upstart Script to run SickRage as a service on Ubuntu/Debian based distros"

#Set username for the process. Should probably be what you use for logging in
setuid username

start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [016]

respawn

exec /opt/sickrage/SickBeard.py

Run the service to see if it works

sudo service sickrage start

You should see a message like this
sickrage start/running, process 14827

See if it still boots on restart

sudo reboot

SickRage is now installed on Ubuntu and will start on boot. If you encounter any bugs, do go report them on the SickRage forum so that the developers can work to resolve them.

Access SickRage at  http://ip.address:8081