Medusa installation Debian Ubuntu

Ubuntu 14.04+ | Debian 7.0+

The following instructions are for installing Medusa on Ubuntu 14.04 and newer or Debian 7.0 and newer.

The installation assumes that you're not using the root user to install/run Medusa. The entries for user:group throughout the document will be set as medusa:medusa and you will have to modify it if you want it to match your user configuration.

1. Update repositories and install dependencies. This will install mediainfo, unrar and git to pull the repo

   sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install unrar git-core openssl mediainfo
   

   Install Python 3:

   Ubuntu: Follow this well written guide over at Real Python.

   Debian 7.0 - 8.0: Follow this well written guide over at Real Python.

   Debian 9 and newer: sudo apt-get install python3

   Still using Python 2.7? Switch now! Follow these instructions.

2. Create medusa user and group medusa. This makes sure that Medusa is isolated and is best practice for security

   sudo addgroup --system medusa
   sudo adduser --disabled-password --system --home /var/lib/medusa --gecos "Medusa" --ingroup medusa medusa
   

3. Clone Medusa git repo

   sudo mkdir /opt/medusa && sudo chown medusa:medusa /opt/medusa
   sudo git clone https://github.com/pymedusa/Medusa.git /opt/medusa
   sudo chown -R medusa:medusa /opt/medusa
   

For SysVinit Systems

4. Copy init.d service

   Ubuntu:

   sudo cp -v /opt/medusa/runscripts/init.ubuntu /etc/init.d/medusa
   

   Debian:

   sudo cp -v /opt/medusa/runscripts/init.debian /etc/init.d/medusa
   

5. Make sure your new service has correct permissions

   sudo chown root:root /etc/init.d/medusa
   sudo chmod 644 /etc/init.d/medusa
   

6. Update and start your new service

   sudo update-rc.d medusa defaults
   sudo service medusa start
   

For Upstart Systems

4. Copy init.d service

   sudo cp -v /opt/medusa/runscripts/init.upstart /etc/init/medusa.conf

5. Make sure your new service has correct permissions

   sudo chown root:root /etc/init/medusa.conf
   sudo chmod 644 /etc/init/medusa.conf

6. Update and start your new service

   sudo service medusa start

For Systemd Systems

4. Copy systemd service

   sudo cp -v /opt/medusa/runscripts/init.systemd /etc/systemd/system/medusa.service

5. Make sure your new service has correct permissions

   sudo chown root:root /etc/systemd/system/medusa.service
   sudo chmod 644 /etc/systemd/system/medusa.service

6. Enable, start, and then check the status of your new service

   sudo systemctl enable medusa
   sudo systemctl start medusa
   sudo systemctl status medusa

7. Add Medusa to startup (optional)

   sudo systemctl enable medusa.service
   

All done, verify that Medusa is accessible at: http://your_ip:8081