The latest update of Filebot is installed via snap on the latest version of Ubuntu, which is quite different from everything I have tried before but since I started getting “http://app.filebot.net/data/exclude-blacklist.txt” with Filebot version 4.6, I had to upgrade in order to keep using it.

What is snap

See https://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/snappy

How to install it on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

sudo apt-get install snapd

Running Filebot in snap

Location

/snap/bin/filebot

Setting up interfaces (so filebot is allowed to interact with files under /media)

See https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/wiki/Interfaces#removable-media for reference

sudo snap connect filebot:removable-media core:removable-media