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OS 11: SickGear Install Guide (tested macOS Big Sur 11.0.1)

• macOS 11 Screenshot
• macOS 11 Install
• Launch Agent (launchd)
• macOS X Install (old)

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Installation

This guide was made using macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 but may help with other releases.

Tip: Enter the following in a Terminal to show hidden files and sub directories from the root directory of Finder

% defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool TRUE;killall Finder

Note for older systems; all of the following steps work using python (2.7) instead of python3

1. Open a Terminal

2. Verify available Python 3. If no success here, install Python3.7.1+

   % python3 -V
   Python 3.8.2
   

3. Verify and install git. Agree if asked to install command line developer tools for git. If not asked, install git

   % git version
   git version 2.24.3 (Apple Git-128)
   

4. Check if Package Installer Python (pip) is available.
   If result is "No module named pip", then continue at step 5, otherwise skip to step 6...

   % python3 -m pip --version
   

5. Fetch and install Package Installer Python (pip)

   % cd ~ 
   % curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
   % python3 get-pip.py
   

   Check pip installed succesfully

   % python3 -m pip --version
   pip 20.3.1 ... (python 3.8)
   

6. Create SickGear app and data folders

   % sudo mkdir -p /opt/sickgear/app
   % sudo mkdir -p /opt/sickgear/data
   

7. Fetch the app. Note; the logged in user here is user1, change user1 in accordance with your set up

   % sudo git clone https://github.com/SickGear/SickGear.git /opt/sickgear/app/
   % sudo chown -R user1 /opt/sickgear
   

8. Install Python dependancies for SickGear

   % cd /opt/sickgear/app
   % python3 -m pip install --user -r requirements.txt
   % python3 -m pip install --user -r recommended.txt
   

9. Set a locale with UTF-8, (you may prefer a different locale -a than the following examples)
   System locale must have utf-8 to support show names like "Les Misérables"
   for en_GB ...

   % echo -e "export LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8\nexport LANG=en_GB.UTF-8" >> ~/.bash_profile && . ~/.bash_profile
   

   for en_US ...

   % echo -e "export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8\nexport LANG=en_US.UTF-8" >> ~/.bash_profile && . ~/.bash_profile
   

10. Run Sickgear

    % python3 ./sickgear.py
    

All done, you can access SickGear at http://localhost:8081

Note: if installing unrar, make sure to notarize the binary to make it available to SickGear at runtime, e.g. in Finder; ctrl-click the binary then "Open" -> "Open"

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Launch Agent (launchd)

Goal: Create a LaunchAgent plist file (an xml formatted pure text file, not rich text)

1. a) Open a Terminal to run the vi text editor, then enter

   % vi /Library/LaunchAgents/com.sickgear.sickgear.plist
   

   b) Insert content; press "i", observe -- INSERT -- in the status line, then copy/paste the following...

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
   <plist version="1.0">
   <dict>
     <key>Label</key>
     <string>SickGear</string>
     <key>ProgramArguments</key>
     <array>
       <string>/usr/bin/python3</string>
       <string>/opt/sickgear/app/sickgear.py</string>
       <string>--datadir</string>
       <string>/opt/sickgear/data/</string>
     </array>
     <key>RunAtLoad</key>
     <true/>
   </dict>
   </plist>
   

   c) Save file; press "Esc" then ":" for the vi input cmdline, then enter "wq" to write file and quit

2. Verify that the created plist is correct

   % plutil /Library/LaunchAgents/com.sickgear.sickgear.plist
   /Library/LaunchAgents/com.sickgear.sickgear.plist: OK
   

3. Launch - don't worry if notified that SickGear is already running or error 5, it will still work on restart

   % launchctl load /Library/LaunchAgents/com.sickgear.sickgear.plist
   

4. The service can be verified using

   % launchctl list SickGear
   

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Screenshot

SickGear About page in macOS 11

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