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How to install Readarr on Ubuntu

Readarrrrrrrrrrrrr. I am using a container created by https://hub.docker.com/r/hotio/readarr for my Readarr setup. This setup utilizes SMB shares for storing eBooks, Deluge for downloading and Watchtower to automate updates of the hotio/readarr container. All visible through Portainer (optional).

Table of contents
  1. Getting started
    1. Prerequisites
    2. Set your time zone
    3. Disable IPv6
    4. Change NTP server
    5. qemu-guest-agent
  2. Prerequisites for Readarr
  3. SMB Shares
    1. Create mount point
    2. Add user group
    3. Automatic mount
    4. Manual mount SMB shares
  4. Deluge
    1. Custom SSL
  5. Docker
  6. Portainer
    1. Admin user
  7. Readarr
    1. Certificate
    2. Remote Path Mappings
  8. Watchtower
  9. Fault finding
    1. CLI
    2. Make portainer start at boot
  10. Authors
  11. Acknowledgments

Getting started

Prerequisites

Set your time zone 

read@arr:~$ date
Sat 11 Jan 21:22:53 GMT 2020
per@sson:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

Current default time zone: 'Europe/Paris'
Local time is now:      Sat Jan 11 22:24:07 CET 2020.
Universal Time is now:  Sat Jan 11 21:24:07 UTC 2020.

read@arr:~$ $ date
Sat 11 Jan 22:24:16 CET 2020

Disable IPv6 

read@arr:~$ sudo nano /etc/default/grub
(...)
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="maybe-ubiquity"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

Change to:

(...)
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="maybe-ubiquity ipv6.disable=1"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="ipv6.disable=1"

Then run:

read@arr:~$ sudo update-grub

Change NTP server 

read@arr:~$ nano /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf 
(...)
[Time]
#NTP=
(...)

Change to

(...)
[Time]
NTP=192.168.44.1 pool.ntp.org
(...)

Restart NTP service

read@arr:~$ sudo systemctl restart systemd-timesyncd

qemu-guest-agent 

read@arr:~$ sudo apt update
read@arr:~$ sudo apt upgrade
read@arr:~$ sudo apt install qemu-guest-agent

Shut down the VM. Enable Qemu Guest Agent in Proxmox and start the VM.

Prerequisites for Readarr

  • SMB Shares
  • Deluge SSL
  • Portainer

SMB Shares

Create mount point

I’ll store the books on another server which will be shared to our Readarr installation through SMB.

read@arr:~$  sudo apt install cifs-utils

Make a folder which we will use to mount:

read@arr:~$  cd /mnt
sudo mkdir SMB
cd SMB
sudo mkdir Readarr
sudo mkdir Torrents

Add user group 

read@arr:/etc/ssl/certs$ sudo groupadd -g 922 deluge
read@arr:/etc/ssl/certs$ groups read
read: read adm cdrom sudo dip plugdev lxd
read@arr:/etc/ssl/certs$ sudo usermod -a -G deluge readarr
read@arr:/etc/ssl/certs$ groups read
read : read adm cdrom sudo dip plugdev lxd deluge

Automatic mount 

sudo nano /etc/fstab

#Torrents
//10.10.10.13/Torrents /mnt/SMB/Torrents cifs uid=1000,gid=1000,credentials=/root/.smbpasswd 0 0 

# Readarr
//10.10.10.13/Readarr /mnt/SMB/Readarr cifs uid=1000,gid=1000,credentials=/root/.smbpassword 0 0

Create credentials file:

read@arr:~$ sudo -i
[sudo] password for readarr: 

root@arr:~# cd ~
vim .smbpasswd

username=readarr
password=PASSWORD
root@arr:~$ sudo chmod 600 .smbpasswd
root@arr:~$ exit

View mounts:

read@arr:/mnt/SMB$ df -H
Filesystem                         Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev                               998M     0  998M   0% /dev
tmpfs                              188M  1.2M  187M   1% /run
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv   22G  6.4G   14G  32% /
tmpfs                              563M     0  563M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs                              113M     0  113M   0% /run/user/1000
read@arr:/mnt/SMB$

Mount all:

sudo mount -a

View mounts:

read@arr:~$ df -H
Filesystem                         Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev                               998M     0  998M   0% /dev
tmpfs                              188M  1.2M  187M   1% /run
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv   22G  6.4G   14G  32% /
tmpfs                              563M     0  563M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs                              113M     0  113M   0% /run/user/1000
/dev/sda2                          1.1G  207M  747M  22% /boot
//10.10.10.13/Torrents              0G    0G   47M 100% /mnt/SMB/Torrents
//10.10.10.13/Readarr             188G  1.1G  187G   1% /mnt/SMB/Readarr

Manual mount SMB shares 

read@arr:~$  sudo mount -t cifs -o username=readarr,uid=1000,gid=1000 //10.10.10.13/Readarr /mnt/SMB/Readarr

read@arr:~$ sudo mount -t cifs -o username=rradaer,uid=1000,gid=1000 //10.10.10.13/Torrents /mnt/SMB/Torrents
Password for rradaer@//10.10.10.13/Torrents: 

    volumes:  
      - /mnt/SMB/Readarr:/mnt/Readarr

Deluge

Custom SSL

View your custom certificate authority with more.

don@pablo:~/easy-rsa/pki$ more custom_ca.crt

Paste the information in a file called custom_ca.crt on our host:

read@arr:~$ cd /etc/ssl/certs
read@arr:/etc/ssl/certs$ sudo nano custom_ca.crt

    volumes:  
      - /etc/ssl/certs:/etc/ssl/certs:ro

First, copy your CA to /usr/local/share/ca-certificates`

sudo cp foo.crt /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/foo.crt

then, update CA store

sudo update-ca-certificates

That’s all. You should get this output:

Updating certificates in /etc/ssl/certs... 1 added, 0 removed; done.
Running hooks in /etc/ca-certificates/update.d....
Adding debian:foo.pem
done.
done.

Docker

We install the necessary packages to be able to install Docker:

read@arr:~$ sudo apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl software-properties-common

We add the official Docker GPG key:

read@arr:~$ curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
OK

We activate Docker repository and update it:

read@arr:~$ sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable"
read@arr:~$ sudo apt update

We install the latest Docker version:

read@arr:~$ sudo apt install docker-ce

Portainer

I use Portainer for managing Docker containers. Installing Portainer is very simple since it works in a Docker container, for this we will execute:

read@arr:~$ sudo docker volume create portainer_data
read@arr:~$ sudo docker run -d -p 9000:9000 -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v portainer_data:/data portainer/portainer-ce
read@arr:~$ sudo docker ps
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                    COMMAND             CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                              NAMES
83078d35b6a2        portainer/portainer-ce   "/portainer"        4 seconds ago       Up 2 seconds        8000/tcp, 0.0.0.0:9000->9000/tcp   keen_robinson
read@arr:~$ sudo docker update --restart unless-stopped 83078d35b6a2

Admin user

Create an admin user through interface http://ip-address:90000, after which you have opted for Connect local.

Connect locally.

Readarr

Install Readarr:

sudo docker volume create readarr_data

First time run to see if everything checks out OK:

sudo docker run -p 8787:8787 -e PUID=1000 -e PGID=1000 -e UMASK=002 -e TZ="Etc/UTC" -v readarr_data:/config -v /mnt/SMB/Torrents:/mnt/Torrents -v /etc/ssl/certs:/etc/ssl/certs -v /mnt/SMB/Readarr:/mnt/Readarr -v /usr/local/share/ca-certificates:/usr/local/share/ca-certificates --restart unless-stopped hotio/readarr:nightly

Daemonize it (-d):

sudo docker run -d -p 8787:8787 -e PUID=1000 -e PGID=1000 -e UMASK=002 -e TZ="Etc/UTC" -v readarr_data:/config -v /mnt/SMB/Torrents:/mnt/Torrents -v /etc/ssl/certs:/etc/ssl/certs -v /mnt/SMB/Readarr:/mnt/Readarr -v /usr/local/share/ca-certificates:/usr/local/share/ca-certificates --restart unless-stopped hotio/readarr:nightly

Certificate

Have to do some more research here.

General > Security > Certificate Validation * DISABLED *

Remote Path Mappings

  • Host: 10.10.10.13
  • Remote Path: mnt/Torrents/Finished/
  • Local Path: /mnt/SMB/Torrents/Finished/

Watchtower

Auto update specific container readarr:

read@arr:~$ sudo docker pull containrrr/watchtower
Using default tag: latest
latest: Pulling from containrrr/watchtower
9b3d60226310: Pull complete 
b20cee7b2b25: Pull complete 
78104bd4b0bf: Pull complete 
Digest: sha256:d0331edc5b1c5bbf18a92fc27c50f32e8bb894cf67a06cbd33d04eb40d5c8cc2
Status: Downloaded newer image for containrrr/watchtower:latest
docker.io/containrrr/watchtower:latest

read@arr:~$ sudo docker run -d --restart=always --name watchtower -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock containrrr/watchtower readarr watchtower --stop-timeout 300s

Fault finding

CLI

Log in to your container through CLI:

read@arr:~$ sudo docker ps
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                   COMMAND   CREATED         STATUS         PORTS                                       NAMES
8fc303220eeb   hotio/readarr:nightly   "/init"   5 minutes ago   Up 5 minutes   0.0.0.0:8787->8787/tcp, :::8787->8787/tcp   practical_colden

sudo docker exec -it 8fc303220eeb /bin/bash

Make portainer start at boot

Go to Containers, select the portainer container and under Container details, select Restart policies and use Unless stopped and press Update.

Authors

Mr. Johnson

Acknowledgments