Lidarr is an open-source music collection manager and a music downloader which allows users to automatically download their favorite music. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Lidarr on your Fedora server.
Before starting, you should have the following prerequisites installed on your Fedora server:
To ensure the system is up-to-date, we should update our repository and upgrade the system, using the following command:
sudo dnf update -y && sudo dnf upgrade -y
Now, we need to install Git, which is used to clone the Lidarr repository from GitHub. To install Git, run the following command:
sudo dnf install git -y
Lidarr is written in C# programming language and uses Mono, an open-source implementation of the .NET framework. To install Mono, run the following command:
sudo dnf install mono-devel.x86_64 -y
Clone the Lidarr repository from GitHub using the following command:
sudo git clone https://github.com/lidarr/Lidarr.git /opt/lidarr
Change the ownership of the /opt/lidarr directory to the user that will run the Lidarr service:
sudo chown -R username:username /opt/lidarr
Replace "username" with the user name of your choice.
Lidarr requires a user account to run, so create a new system user called "lidarr" with the following command:
sudo useradd -r -s /sbin/nologin lidarr
Then set the permissions for the Lidarr directory:
sudo chmod -R 755 /opt/lidarr
To start the Lidarr server, use the following command:
sudo mono /opt/lidarr/Lidarr.exe
This will start the Lidarr service and you can access the Lidarr web application by opening a web browser and entering http://127.0.0.1:8686 in the address bar.
Before using Lidarr, you need to configure it. The first time you launch the Lidarr web interface, it will prompt you through a wizard for setting up your media folders, download client, and indexer.
After setting up Lidarr, you can customize the configuration from the web interface.
In this tutorial, we have successfully installed Lidarr on a Fedora server. Now you can download your favorite music and manage your music collection using Lidarr.
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