I was just wondering if anyone knows of a Newleecher equivalent for linux, I've done some googling to no avail.I've heard of Pan but had issues getting it to work. I'm not in support of using wine and running newsleecher itself from there. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm running slack 12.1 with a KDE desktop. Thanks in advance.

What is newsleecher? If it is an NNTP client, then Thunderbird or Evolution could apply.

Yves.

I find using klibido to grab nzb file content works perfectly. Once I have the content, I use a bash script with par2archive, unrar and a couple of python scripts to rebuild the grabbed files.

When the script completes the rebuild it then deletes the par2 and rar files automagically.

packages:
klibido is in debian repos and slackware packages lists

You can get the python scripts from madcowdisease - http://www.madcowdisease.org/mcd/misc

cd into the klibido downloads folder after it completes..
and run the parextract script.

my simple parextract script:
touch ~/tmp/parextract
vi ~/tmp/parextract
edit this file to contain:

#!/bin/bash ls ./*.par2 | while read par ; \
do /usr/local/bin/newsunpack.py -d "$par" ; done

copy or move the file to /usr/local/bin/
su chmod +x /usr/local/bin/parextract

exit

run as user to test it out.

hope this helps..
nmy

I use hellanzb. It also does par-ing and joining etc.

But there are many more - but you must look for a usenet client with nzb support

Try http://www.google.com/linux?q=nzb+clients.

Hellanzb is what I use as well.

For a GUI, Pan could be the best solution, plus it's included in Slackware by default. What type of problem did you have setting it up?

I just installed hellanzb but I have no idea how to run it (newbie). Would one of you post a link to some documentation, please? I've Googled to find some instructions with no luck.

TIA

Have you configured the .hellanzb/etc/hellanzb.conf file? It's self documentating.

The README file is very informative also.

Where have you installed the hellanzb directory heirarchy and what have you done so far?

Where are you calling hellanzb.py from? I always call it from the .hellanzb directory - where hellanzb.py is located.