{"id":4251,"date":"2013-01-16T00:55:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T22:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vaxxi.net\/log\/?p=4251"},"modified":"2013-01-16T01:13:53","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T23:13:53","slug":"installing-flexget-on-tomatousb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vaxxi.net\/log\/installing-flexget-on-tomatousb\/","title":{"rendered":"how to install flexget on tomatousb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomatousb.org\/\">TomatoUSB<\/a> is <em>an alternative Linux-based firmware for powering Broadcom-based ethernet routers. It is a modification of the famous Tomato firmware, with additional built-in support for USB port, wireless-N mode support, support for several newer router models, and various enhancements<\/em>. That translates to one kick ass Linux distribution to take care of your always-powered-on-little-server which is your router, enabling it to do various cool stuff. I&#8217;m using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.4shared.com\/dir\/v1BuINP3\/Toastman_Builds.html\">Toastman&#8217;s builds<\/a>, they&#8217;re very well equipped and quite stable.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flexget.com\/\">FlexGet<\/a> is <em>a multipurpose automation tool for content like torrents, nzbs, podcasts, comics, series, movies, etc<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transmissionbt.com\/\">Transmission<\/a> is a bittorrent client runs natively on multiple operating systems. Yes, that includes TomatoUSB.<\/p>\n<p>So ? FlexGet watches your content source, Transmissions downloads it and TomatoUSB supports everything. One-stop-low-power downloading box, if you know what I mean \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>We assume you already have TomatoUSB and Optware installed (preferably Optware should be on a large enough partition, I&#8217;m using a 1 GB partition which is plenty of space).<\/p>\n<p>First thing is to get Python 2.6:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\nroot@router# ipkg install py26-setuptools\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>It will install Python 2.6 and all dependencies. Next, you might need to properly set up a path:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\nroot@router# export PYTHONPATH=\/opt\/local\/lib\/python2.5\/site-packages:\/opt\/local\/lib\/python2.6\/site-packages\/\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Now you can install FlexGet:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\nroot@router# easy_install flexget\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>After a while and if no errors appear, you should see <strong>Finished processing dependencies for flexget<\/strong>. FlexGet will be under <strong>\/opt\/local\/bin\/<\/strong>. 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