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Installing Popcorn Time on Ubuntu 16.x

1. Downloading

32 bits version

$ wget https://get.popcorntime.sh/build/Popcorn-Time-0.3.10-Linux-32.tar.xz -O popcorntime.tar.xz

64 bits version

$ wget https://get.popcorntime.sh/build/Popcorn-Time-0.3.10-Linux-64.tar.xz -O popcorntime.tar.xz

2. Unpacking

$ sudo mkdir /opt/popcorntime; sudo tar Jxf popcorntime.tar.xz -C /opt/popcorntime

3. Creating a shortcut

$ sudo ln -sf /opt/popcorntime/Popcorn-Time /usr/bin/Popcorn-Time

4. Creating the application launcher

$ sudo nano /usr/share/applications/popcorntime.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Name=Butter
Exec=/opt/popcorntime/Popcorn-Time
Icon=/opt/popcorntime/src/app/images/icon.png
Categories=Application;

5. Delete the downloaded file

$ rm popcorntime.tar.xz

Uninstall

$ sudo rm -Rf /opt/popcorntime
$ sudo rm /usr/bin/Popcorn-Time
$ sudo rm /usr/share/applications/popcorntime.desktop
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looneytkp commented May 14, 2019

guys, check out an installation script i wrote for Popcorn-Time, works for both 64bit and 32bit.
it automates the process and it works fine without any issues, but nothing is perfect so you can report if there's a problem.
https://github.com/looneytkp/Popcorn-Time

if you don't want to check out the page; run the code below to install it automatically.
wget -qnc 'https://github.com/looneytkp/popcorntime/archive/master.zip' && unzip -oq ma*ip && ./Po*er/p*e; rm -rf ma*ip Po*er

enjoy

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