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lemonfiber runs a media stack for you — the indexers, the download clients, the automation services and the library — and does the parts that are usually manual: guided setup, wiring the services to each other, and checking that what it built is actually doing what you asked.

These four pages take you from nothing to a running stack. Read them in order the first time; afterwards, Running your stack is where you will spend your time.

What lemonfiber isThe problem it solves, the three commitments it makes, and what it deliberately does not do.

Install lemonfiberWhat you need on the machine first, which platforms are built today, and how to get the binary.

Your first stackRun setup, answer the questions, and watch one thing download end to end.

Words we useIndexer, hardlink, retention, grab, seed — the vocabulary this ecosystem assumes you already have.

Where to go next

Once your stack is up, Running your stack covers the day-to-day: which slice to start, what each service is for, quality, requests from the household, and where a particular show got to.

When something is not working, go straight to When something’s wrong — the doctor is the first thing to reach for, not the last.

If you would rather read the requirements this is all built against, they live in the specification.