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HomeSabnzbd tutorial

Sabnzbd tutorial

sabnzbd logo nzbusenet SABnzbd tutorial

This is a SABnzbd tutorial overview. SABnzbd is the most widely used newsreader. This program is quite simple to use. SABznbd is available, for many systems. Among others, Lunix, Windows, Synology. And even for a Qnap system. The beauty of this program. Is that it’s full open source software. Because of this, there are also many SABnzbd plugins/addons to be found. Some well-known addons are CouchPotato, Radarr, Sonarr, SickChill and HeadPhones. Everything is discussed in the tutorials below. To download from the newsgroups with SABNZbd.

SABnzbd tutorials

  • SaBnzbd general tutorials
  • SABnzbd Windows Overview
    • Install and configure SaBnzbd.
  • Tutorial SABnzbd Ubuntu overview
    • Install and configure SABnzbd.
  • SABnzbd tutorial Synology overview
    • Install and configure SABnzbd.
    • Install Docker SABnzbd
    • SABnzbd on DSM6
  • SABnzbd Debian tutorial
    • Install and configure SABnzbd Debian
  • Tutorial Qnap overview
    • Provisioning and configuring SABnzbd
  • MacOS Overview tutorial
    • Install and configure MAC SAB
  • Alternative SABnzbd

SaBnzbd general tutorials

This is an overview of general Sabnzbd tutorials. These tutorials, you can apply to any operating system.

  1. SABnzbd known issues. This is an overview of known SABznbd error messages.
  2. SABNzbd delete fake downloads. This allows you to avoid getting fake downloads.
  3. Chrome Plugin SABnzbd SABconnect++. This makes downloading NZB files a little easier with the browser Chrome. You will then see a download button on various websites.

Unfortunately, the tutorial below no longer work.

  1. FireFox SABnzbd status plugin. This FireFox plugin makes downloading NZB files a little easier.

See also the NZBGet vs SABnzbd page.


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SABnzbd Windows Overview

This is an overview of tutorials for the SaBnzbd program. These tutorials are aimed only at the operating system Windows It can happen. That it’s going to be displayed a little differently. This may be due to a different Windows version used in the tutorials.

Install and configure SaBnzbd.

What is covered in this Windows SabNzbd tutorial?

  1. Installing SaBnzbd Windows.
  2. Configure SABnzbd Windows.


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Tutorial SABnzbd Ubuntu overview

This is an overview of tutorials for the SABnzbd program. These are only targeting the Ubuntu operating system. Ubuntu is not for beginners. Ubuntu is definitely recommended. Like you want to build an HTPC. You don’t have to pay a license fee. Ubuntu is one of the most user-friendly Linux versions.

Install and configure SABnzbd.

What is covered in this Ubuntu SABnzbd tutorial?

  1. Install SABnzbd via the command line.
  2. Configure Sabnzbd Ubuntu.


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SABnzbd tutorial Synology overview

This is an overview of tutorials for the SABnzbd program. These are only aimed at Synology NAS systems.

Install and configure SABnzbd.

What is covered in this Synology Nas tutorial?

  1. Install SABnzbd on Synology DSM 6.
  2. Synology Configure SABNzbd for downloading.

Install Docker SABnzbd

In this tutorial we will use Docker to install SABnzbd. This makes you less dependent on a Synology package. There are many programs available via Docker.

  • Install Docker SABnzbd.

SABnzbd on DSM6

What is covered in this Synology SABnzbd tutorial? You only need to use this tutorial. When you upgrade from DSM5 to DSM6. Security has been improved since version 6. But this also makes it a bit more difficult to install on a DSM6 device.

  • SABnzbd fix for DSM6.


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SABnzbd Debian tutorial

This is an overview of Debian tutorials. These tutorials are for the more experienced computer users.

Install and configure SABnzbd Debian

  1. Install SABnzbd Debian.
  2. Configure SABnzbd Debian.


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Tutorial Qnap overview

This is an overview of Qnap tutorials for SABnzbd. Qnap is a slightly less well-known brand than Synology. But also a pretty good brand among the nas systems.

Provisioning and configuring SABnzbd

In this tutorial we will install SABNzbd on a Qnap system.

  1. Install Qnap SABnzbd via SSH.
  2. Qnap configure Sabnzbd .


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MacOS Overview tutorial

This is an overview of MacOS Sabnzbd tutorials. SABnzbd works fine on MacOS and is free to use. A lot of other programs to download from the newsgroups cost money on macOS.

Install and configure MAC SAB

  1. Install MacOS Sabznbd.
  2. Configure MacOS SAbnzbd.

See also the best NZB downloader Mac page.


Alternative SABnzbd

There are many programs to download from the newsgroups. But for SABnzbd there is only one alternative. And that is the program NZBGet. All other download programs for the newsgroups do not have a web interface. Partly because of this, they are often limited to the Windows operating system. For more information see also the best NZB downloader page.

  • NZBGet tutorial.

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