The following instructions are for installing Sonarr on CentOS 6.

The installation should also be applicable to RHEL 6 and Fedora (12, 13, or 14) with minimal changes.

The installation assumes that you're not using the root user to install/run Sonarr - the entries for user:group throughout the document will have to be modified to match your user configuration.

Install Sonarr

  1. [Optional] Configure sudo for your user bash echo "user ALL=(ALL) ALL" >> /etc/sudoers

  2. Install EPEL & OpenSuse repository

    EPEL: is needed for mediainfo installation
    Mono: is needed for mono-opt and mono-opt-devel installation

bash sudo rpm -ivh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm sudo curl -L http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:tpokorra:mono/CentOS_CentOS-6/home:tpokorra:mono.repo -o /etc/yum.repos.d/mono.repo

  1. Install prerequisites

    I chose to install the latest mono (3.4.0) from the OpenSuse repo instead of using the older CentOS version (2.10.8)
    The OpenSuse mono-opt will be installed under /opt so it can probably coexist with the CentOS mono-core (i havent tested this myself!)

    bash sudo yum install gcc-c++ gcc mediainfo libzen libmediainfo curl gettext As of this writing, the "mono" and "mono-opt" packages from the OpenSuse are version 3.12.0-2.1 and cause a coredump when you attempt to run Sonarr. Use the "mono-3.4" packages instead:

    bash sudo yum install mono-opt-3.4 mono-opt-3.4-devel

  2. Download sqlite3.8.5 source and extract it

    bash curl -L http://www.sqlite.org/2014/sqlite-autoconf-3080500.tar.gz -o /tmp/sqlite-autoconf-3080500.tar.gz tar -zxvf /tmp/sqlite-autoconf-*.tar.gz -C /tmp/

  3. Compile sqlite3.8.5

    Sonarr requires the COLUMN_METADATA option so we'll enable it.
    I didn't want to replace the system sqlite installation (v3.6.20) since CentOS depends on it so I'm using the --prefix option to install it to another directory.
    The init script will be configured to call this new version when running Sonarr.

    ```bash cd /tmp/sqlite-autoconf*

    sudo ./configure --prefix=/opt/sqlite3.8.5 \ --disable-static \ CFLAGS=" -Os \ -frecord-gcc-switches \ -DSQLITE_ENABLE_COLUMN_METADATA=1"

    sudo make sudo make install ```

  4. Download and extract Sonarr and optionally rename it

    bash curl -L http://download.sonarr.tv/v2/master/mono/NzbDrone.master.tar.gz -o /tmp/NzbDrone.master.tar.gz sudo tar zxvf /tmp/NzbDrone.master.tar.gz -C /opt/

    I wanted to maintain lower-case naming so I renamed the Sonarr program directory
    bash sudo mv /opt/NzbDrone /opt/nzbdrone

  5. Run Sonarr to test

    Just run it to verify everything is working the stop it (CTRL-C) and move to the next steps.

    The freakishly long command below will:
    1. Set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PATH to point to the new sqlite and mono directories
    2. Run Sonarr
    3. Set the environment back to normal.

    bash export LPATH_BAK=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH ; export PATH_BAK=$PATH && \ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/mono/lib:/opt/sqlite3.8.5/lib && \ export PATH=/opt/mono/bin:/opt/sqlite3.8.5/bin:$PATH && \ /opt/mono/bin/mono /opt/nzbdrone/NzbDrone.exe ; \ export PATH=$PATH_BAK ; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LPATH_BAK

Create Sonarr init Service

  1. Download init script and configuration files

    bash sudo curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OnceUponALoop/RandomShell/master/NzbDrone-init/nzbdrone.init.centos -o /etc/init.d/nzbdrone sudo curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OnceUponALoop/RandomShell/master/NzbDrone-init/nzbdrone.init-cfg.centos -o /etc/sysconfig/nzbdrone

    Set the correct permissions bash sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/nzbdrone sudo chmod 644 /etc/sysconfig/nzbdrone

  2. Edit the configuration file to suit your environment

    If you followed the instructions above without changing any of the installation paths the only change you'll need to make is to the nzbdroneUser. bash sudo vi /etc/sysconfig/nzbdrone

  3. Add the Sonarr service to system services

    bash sudo chkconfig --add nzbdrone

  4. Configure Sonarr service to start on system start up

    bash sudo chkconfig nzbdrone on

  5. Start Sonarr service

    bash sudo service nzbdrone start