Auto-install Radarr, Sonarr & qBittorrent with Plex — no command line

The *arr stack — Radarr, Sonarr, Prowlarr and a download client like qBittorrent — is what turns Plex into a library that fills itself. The downside is the setup: containers, paths, permissions and API keys all have to line up perfectly. This guide explains the connections, then shows the no-command-line way.

How the pieces connect

• Prowlarr — holds your indexers and pushes them to Radarr & Sonarr — set it up once.
• Radarr / Sonarr — decide what to grab (movies / TV) and send it to the download client.
• qBittorrent — downloads the files into a shared media folder.
• Plex — watches that folder and adds new content to your libraries.

The classic failure point is the shared path + permissions: if Radarr/Sonarr and qBittorrent don't agree on the exact folder (and have the right rights on it), downloads complete but never reach Plex — with no obvious error.

The manual route (for reference)

1. Install Docker and write a compose file for each service.
2. Create a consistent media/downloads folder structure with matching UID/GID.
3. Start everything, then copy each service's API key into the others.
4. Add indexers in Prowlarr, link qBittorrent in Radarr/Sonarr, point Plex at the libraries.
5. Test an actual download end-to-end and debug the paths until it lands in Plex.

The no-command-line route

Brival-Plex does every step above for you. It installs Docker, deploys Radarr, Sonarr, Prowlarr, qBittorrent, Overseerr and Tautulli, sets a consistent media folder, exchanges the API keys, and links everything to Plex — including the path/permission details that usually break. You get a guided wizard instead of YAML, on Windows or Linux.

One-line install (Linux)

curl -fsSL https://brivalpro.org/api/download/install.sh | sudo bash

On Windows, just run the installer and open the wizard — same result, zero terminal.