While it isn't officially supported, we have many users who successfully run NewsBin under Linux with a Windows emulator (Wine is the most popular). This forum exists for you Linux guys to share your experience getting NewsBin running on Linux as well as report any strangeness that we may or may not be able to fix. DThor is the resident expert.
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by danneauxs » Tue Jul 29, 2025 11:19 am
So, just installed bottles and newbinpro in bottles. Seems to run fine but Iget this error now:
[07/29 10:05:45] ERROR ReadFullDatabase: Invalid packet Format: Storage.db3
[07/29 10:05:45] ERROR ReadFullDatabase: Invalid packet Format: Storage.db3
It might have something to do with me downloading ALL headers for multiple groups. Not sure. I just might be bottles?
Is there somethine I could check?
(linux mint mate 22.1, bottles version 51.24 flatpak Ryzen 7 32GB Ram on SSD)
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by Quade » Wed Jul 30, 2025 5:35 pm
I've never used bottles with Newsbin. It works great with vanilla "Wine". In fact I test every release against "Wine" to check the installer.
The DB's are pretty robust. I wonder if you ran out of disk space and corrupted them? I'm thinking disk space or permissions problems writing the DBs.
Headers for large groups take up an extraordinary amount of disk space if you download all of them. You have to be careful about running out.
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by Galvin » Wed Dec 24, 2025 5:20 pm
I tried bottles with version 6.90 of newsbin pro. Seems to work fine, but feels there are a few graphical glitches.
One that I know of you can see in the server settings. The check boxes you have to mouse over to get them to fully appear. Like Enable Server, Requires Login, etc
Can't get associations to work. I got it to half work by double clicking an .nzb file. It would open newsbin pro. But it wouldn't start downloading. I figure i'll wait until bottles devs support it. I can drag and drop an nzb into newsbin pro to get it to download. So it's good enough
Is the downloading progress bar suppose to be yellow. I forgot
The best wine runner I know of with this version is ge-proton. Using windows 10 option
Only been using fedora for 3 weeks now. So really new to this stuff
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