Lidarr is a free and open-source music collection manager for BitTorrent and Usenet, which allows you to automatically download and organize your music files. This tutorial will show you how to install Lidarr on Arch Linux.
Before installing Lidarr, you will need to install some required dependencies. Open the terminal and run the following command:
sudo pacman -S mono
This command will install the Mono runtime, which is required to run Lidarr.
Next, you will need to download and install Lidarr. Open the terminal and run the following commands:
git clone https://github.com/Lidarr/Lidarr.git
cd Lidarr
sudo chmod -R 777 /opt/Lidarr/
sudo cp -r Lidarr /opt/
sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /opt/Lidarr/
These commands will download the Lidarr repository from GitHub, and then install it to the /opt/Lidarr directory.
Once the installation is complete, you can start Lidarr by running the following command:
mono /opt/Lidarr/Lidarr.exe
This will launch the Lidarr application. You can access Lidarr by opening a web browser and navigating to http://localhost:8686.
Before using Lidarr, you will need to configure it with your Usenet or BitTorrent provider, and specify which types of music you want to download. You can do this by following the instructions provided in the Lidarr documentation.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install Lidarr on Arch Linux. Now you can easily download and organize your music files using Lidarr.
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