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NOTE Experimental and advanced.

It is possible to run SABnzbd on a plain, standard Android device.

Basic installation

1. On your Android device, install the app UserLAnd.
2. While setting up UserLAnd, choose Ubuntu and ssh.
3. Start UserLAnd. On the command line, run sudo apt-get install sabnzbdplus.
4. Start SABnzbd with sabnzbdplus.
5. On your Android device, access SABnzbd via http://127.0.0.1:8080.
6. You can now fill out the wizard.

This gives you the SABnzbd version included with the Ubuntu release, which is usually outdated.

Update to the latest SABnzbd

With some extra work, you can update to the current version of SABnzbd. On the command line of Ubuntu-on-Android, run:

sudo apt update -y
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common -y
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jcfp/ppa -y
sudo apt-get install sabnzbdplus -y

You can start SABnzbd with:

sabnzbdplus

You can access SABnzbd via http://127.0.0.1:8080.

Share downloads to Android

There are shared directories between UserLAnd and Android.

For internal storage:

• UserLAnd: /storage/internal/
• Android app “Files”, “Internal storage”: /Android/data/tech.ula/files/storage

For SD card (if any):

• UserLAnd: /storage/sdcard/
• Android app “Files”, “SD Card”: /Android/data/tech.ula/files/storage

So, in SABnzbd set the Completed Download Folder to /storage/internal/.

Remote access to Ubuntu-on-Android

You can access Ubuntu-on-Android via SSH like this:

ssh <ip address of Android device> -p 2022