How to Install Medusa on MXLinux Latest

Introduction

Medusa is a Python-based media manager that helps you to find, organize, and watch your favorite TV shows and movies. It is a fork of the popular Sickbeard application and is designed to be lightweight, easy to use, and highly customizable. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to install Medusa on MXLinux Latest.

Prerequisites

Before you start, you'll need:

• A MXLinux Latest server with sudo access
• A software package management system (apt, dpkg, or aptitude)

Step 1: Installing Python

Medusa is written in Python and requires Python 2.7 or later. If you haven't already installed Python on your server, you can do so by running the following command:

sudo apt-get install python python-pip python-dev

This will install Python and other necessary packages to your system.

Step 2: Installing git

To get the latest version of Medusa, we need to clone the git repository. If git isn't already installed on your system, run the following command to install it:

sudo apt-get install git

Step 3: Cloning the Medusa repository

Now we'll clone the Medusa repository to your server. To do this, run the following command:

sudo git clone https://github.com/pymedusa/Medusa.git /opt/medusa

This will clone the repository into the /opt/medusa directory.

Step 4: Installing dependencies

Medusa has several dependencies that need to be installed before it can run. You can install these dependencies by running the following command:

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libffi-dev python-dev python-lxml python-pycurl python-openssl libjpeg-dev libxslt-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev

Step 5: Creating a Medusa service

To make it easier to manage Medusa, we'll create a service file that will start, stop and restart the application. In this example, we'll use systemd to create the service file.

Create a new file at /etc/systemd/system/medusa.service with the following content:

[Unit]
Description=Medusa
After=network.target

[Service]
User=root
Group=root
Restart=always
WorkingDirectory=/opt/medusa
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python /opt/medusa/medusa/start.py --nolaunch --datadir=/opt/medusa/data --config=/opt/medusa/config.ini
TimeoutSec=30

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

This service file specifies that the Medusa application should be run as the root user, restart always, and start at boot time.

Step 6: Starting the Medusa service

Now that the service file is in place, start the Medusa application by running the following commands:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable medusa.service
sudo systemctl start medusa.service

These commands will reload the system daemon, enable the Medusa service to start at boot time, and start the Medusa application.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we've shown you how to install Medusa on MXLinux Latest. With Medusa, you can easily watch and organize your favorite TV shows and movies.