I wanted to install jackett and sonarr, they are complicated to use as is, moreover I am using Ubuntu. I am following fuidleine for installing jackett with STUPID command line making it EXTRA difficult. But now I have to change directory ownerships and what nots. I am the ONLY user on this machine. I want to own everything by default I am root I am admin I am user I am all. How do I make this happen instead of sending stupid commands all the time and making using Linux EASY. Before anyone getting on about Security I don’t give 2centa about it .I just want to use and install and do whatever I wish.
How do I make this happen Forever, once inför all.
I probably just fell for the most obvious ragebait in existence
but in the unlikely event that you are actually being serious then owning everything would probably wreck your entire system at some point whether directly or not. and looking through the github page it doesn’t seem that hard to install to me, just copy paste one command and you’re done with it… idk never actually had the need to use it.
Yah if it was simple as that in Linux. When the page says do chown 775 xyz , the Linux throes error as can’t modify, then I go down rabbit hole…honestly it’s far from simple
“chown” is a command for changing the users and groups who own a file. But the options “775 xyz” are used with chmod, a command for changing what permissions the owners and groups have over a file. I’m not sure what you’re trying to do so I can’t tell what part of the command is wrong.
Either way you can run a command with elevated permissions by putting “sudo” in front of the command. Or by switching to the root user by using the command “su” or “sudo -i” (if you have sudo access, but don’t know the root password)
Yah if it was simple as that in Linux. When the page says do chown 775 xyz , the Linux throes error as can’t modify, then I go down rabbit hole…honestly it’s far from simple
To be able to use chown (Change Owner) you need to have the powers to do so.
Your default user does not have such powers when the target is not yet owned by that user. Perhaps you did not use sudo, like sudo chown 775 xyz So I guess the documentation of that software installation howto is lacking specifics for Ubuntu (Ubuntu uses sudo, but e.g. Debian does not do so and defaults to su).
Follow https://trash-guides.info/Hardlinks/How-to-setup-for/Dockstarter/
I would also suggest prowlarr instead of jackett.
If that’s too hard then I think you should consider renting a seedbox that has easy one click install options for all the ARRs.
I am root I am admin I am user I am all.
Holy shit I almost died
You represent part of community and these replies does not come out as helpful and community then keeps saying Linux use is 4% and rejoice
No you don’t want to be root or admin or whatever. You want not to have your external programs like your browser, email client what have you to run as root. You don’t want malware without the ability to intervene.
Not even under Windows are you running as admin all the time.
So perhaps consider learning why it is a good idea to run your user at low privileges.
And while you are at it, most if not all programs come with documentation and or man pages. To access the latter use the command man <name of the command>
I’m sorry to hear that you’re having a hard time getting the software running. I understand that this can be very frustrating.
As others have said, making yourself the owner of everything can cause numerous issues in the long run and there’s a reason why most distributions DON’T make you root.
Why are you using Linux in the first place? I think sonarr and jackett both run on Windows as well.
Don’t let the frustration get the best of you. If you really want to run those tools yourself, then dive into it (and all the technical issues that are part of it), but if you only want to have access to the functionality, you might want to look into a service that takes care of all the technical burden.
Good luck
