NZBGet is a free open-source Usenet client for downloading binary content (image, audio, video, e-book, etc.) on Usenet. It’s cross-platform, available for Linux, macOS, Windows, BSD and Android. This tutorial is going to show you how to install NZBGet on Ubuntu and Linux Mint.
NZBGet is available from the default repository, so you can open up a terminal and install it with apt
package manager.
sudo apt install nzbget
To check your NZBGet version, run
nzbget --version
Sample output:
nzbget version: 21.0
NZBGet is started from the command line like below. It will run in daemon mode (in the background) and use the /etc/nzbget.conf
configuration file. (Please don’t run it with sudo privilege.)
nzbget --daemon --configfile /etc/nzbget.conf
If you run the following command, you will find it listens on 127.0.0.1:6789
. (If your Ubuntu server doesn’t have the netstat
command, you can run sudo apt install net-tools
command to install it.)
sudo netstat -lnpt | grep nzbget
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