I have now installed snap sabnzbd and have a problem

Ubuntu Version:

ubuntu 24.04

Desktop Environment (if applicable):

Gnome

Problem Description:

Tried to start snap sabnzbd…

Relevant System Information:

Screenshots or Error Messages:

What I’ve Tried:

to open sabnzbd


I am putting this in the same thing. Your system has me completely confused. It did not, however, show in the message so I put it here. I had the list of things I had done above and your system just ignored them. Hopefully it may now be in the message.

First, I hope this is not in another message. I am trying.

I have now installed Snap Sabnzbd on Ubuntu using the App Center for snap. then I re-started my system.

I then went to snap to see if it was listed, it was not.
I then went to settings apps to see if it was listed - it was not.

I then went to the Ubuntu file to see if there was anything listed about Sabnzbd - there is a pile of listed Sabnzbd files.

Question: What do I do now?

Please open a terminal and run this command:
snap list

Does it appear there?

This seems to be a webserver application running on your local computer, to use it you should point your browser to http://localhost:8080

This is described on https://sabnzbd.org/wiki/

SABnzbd does not have a Windows or macOS 
specific interface. SABnzbd happily runs in the 
background, either on your desktop system or on a 
real server, and you can access the interface 
through your browser.
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Thank you for the reply. It didn’t work but I looked and found: ```
ls -l /snap/bin

This got me:
reg@localhost:~$ cd /snap/sabnzbd/6382/opt/sabnzbd
greg@localhost:/snap/sabnzbd/6382/opt/sabnzbd$ 
greg@localhost:/snap/sabnzbd/6382/opt/sabnzbd$ ls
builder        icons        LICENSE.txt  portable.cmd      SABnzbd.py  win
COPYRIGHT.txt  INSTALL.txt  linux        README.md         scripts
email          interfaces   locale       README.mkd        snap
GPL2.txt       ISSUES.txt   macos        requirements.txt  tests
GPL3.txt       licenses     po           sabnzbd           tools
greg@localhost:/snap/sabnzbd/6382/opt/sabnzbd$ open tests
greg@localhost:/snap/sabnzbd/6382/opt/sabnzbd$ open readme.md
gio: file:///snap/sabnzbd/6382/opt/sabnzbd/readme.md: Error when getting information for file “/snap/sabnzbd/6382/opt/sabnzbd/readme.md”: No such file or directory
greg@localhost:/snap/sabnzbd/6382/opt/sabnzbd$ open readme.mkd
gio: file:///snap/sabnzbd/6382/opt/sabnzbd/readme.mkd: Error when getting information for file “/snap/sabnzbd/6382/opt/sabnzbd/readme.mkd”: No such file or directory
greg@localhost:/snap/sabnzbd/6382/opt/sabnzbd$ open README.mkd
greg@localhost:/snap/sabnzbd/6382/opt/sabnzbd$ open README.md
greg@localhost:/snap/sabnzbd/6382/opt/sabnzbd$ open README.mkd
greg@localhost:/snap/sabnzbd/6382/opt/sabnzbd$ open README.md
greg@localhost:/snap/sabnzbd/6382/opt/sabnzbd$ ls -l /snap/bin
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jun 18 17:20 canonical-livepatch -> /usr/bin/snap
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jun 15 14:01 certbot -> /usr/bin/snap
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jun 16 11:07 firefox -> /usr/bin/snap
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jun 16 11:07 firefox.geckodriver -> /usr/bin/snap
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Feb 15 00:15 firmware-updater -> /usr/bin/snap
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Jun 16 11:07 geckodriver -> firefox.geckodriver
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Apr 21 18:52 snap-store -> /usr/bin/snap
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Apr 21 18:52 snap-store.show-updates -> /usr/bin/snap
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jun 17 09:03 thunderbird -> /usr/bin/snap
greg@localhost:/snap/sabnzbd/6382/opt/sabnzbd$ 

Then, README.md got  you eventually: https://github.com/sabnzbd/sabnzbd/blob/master/INSTALL.txt

Which kinda tells you what to do and involves things like:  Doing stuff in windows
Educational but not real useful.  For instance - I checked the tests and Windows was the target.

Basically I have NOT installed Sabnzbd!

I know, I am getting upset.  This thing is driving me nuts - apologies.  I have been trying to do this for two days and failed each step of the way.

Thoughts?

The snap only installs a service that runs in background, not any application you could run, see what I wrote above, just open your browser and point it to the localhost URL above …

To see the running service you can run:

snap services sabnzbd

That should list the webserver service the snap did install and start automatically …

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It didn’t when I first tried but this time it did (sorry) - I got:
$ snap list
Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher Notes
bare 1.0 5 latest/stable canonical✓ base
canonical-livepatch 10.11.2 333 latest/stable canonical✓ -
certbot 4.1.1 4737 latest/stable certbot-eff✓ classic
core20 20250526 2599 latest/stable canonical✓ base
core22 20250528 2010 latest/stable canonical✓ base
core24 20250504 988 latest/stable canonical✓ base
firefox 139.0.4-1 6316 latest/stable/… mozilla✓ -
firmware-updater 0+git.22198be 167 1/stable/… canonical✓ -
gnome-42-2204 0+git.38ea591 202 latest/stable/… canonical✓ -
gtk-common-themes 0.1-81-g442e511 1535 latest/stable/… canonical✓ -
mesa-2404 24.2.8 495 latest/stable canonical✓ -
sabnzbd 4.6.0-dev 6382 latest/stable safihre -
snap-store 0+git.90575829 1270 2/stable/… canonical✓ -
snapd 2.68.5 24718 latest/stable canonical✓ snapd
snapd-desktop-integration 0.9 253 latest/stable/… canonical✓ -
thunderbird 128.11.1esr-1 737 latest/stable/… canonical✓ -

Thank you for the reponse I will give it a try…

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WOW! Something I can do to maybe run it! I have it up and running! Splendid!

THANK YOU!!!

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It now comes up as soon as firefox comes on. THANKS AGAIN!!

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