This is intended as a copy-paste document allowing you to quickly install and configure Sonarr on your Debian-based GNU/Linux system. The general outline should apply to most current GNU/Linux systems; however, this document was created using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

This document assumes you already have a user created named “tube”; feel free to change according to your preferences.

mkdir ~tube/src
cd ~tube/src

Browse here to check for the latest version of the MediaArea package and reference that version in the command lines below … https://mediaarea.net/repo/deb/

wget https://mediaarea.net/repo/deb/repo-mediaarea_1.0-12_all.deb && dpkg -i repo-mediaarea_1.0-12_all.deb && apt-get update
sudo dpkg -i repo-mediaarea_1.0-12_all.deb && sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 2009837CBFFD68F45BC180471F4F90DE2A9B4BF8
echo "deb https://apt.sonarr.tv/debian buster main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sonarr.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt -y install sonarr

set sonarr user & group to: tube

service sonarr status
netstat -an | grep LISTEN | grep 8989