How to Install Couchpotato "The Right Way(tm)"

0.Installing Couchpotato on Ubuntu.md

This guide will walk you through installing couchpotato from source.

There are a few assumptions I'm making about you and your system :

• your current user has write access to /opt/
• virtualenv installed : sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv
• git is installed: sudo apt-get install git

1.setup.md

First, download the source code and setup the environ in a directory.

cd /opt/
git clone https://github.com/RuudBurger/CouchPotatoServer.git ./couchpotato
cd ./couchpotato
virtualenv ./environ/
sudo useradd --system --user-group --no-create-home couchpotato
sudo chown -R couchpotato:couchpotato ./couchpotato

2.install-service.md

This sets the stage for getting couchpotato up and running on system start.

cd couchpotato
sudo cp ./init/ubuntu /etc/init.d/couchpotato
sudo cp ./init/ubuntu.default /etc/default/couchpotato

3.customise.config.md

Customise the config defaults sudo nano /etc/default/couchpotato, because they are going to contain invalid details

CP_HOME=/opt/couchpotato
CP_USER=couchpotato
PYTHON_BIN=$CP_HOME/environ/bin/python

4.reality.check.md

You should have something like:

/opt$ ls -al ./couchpotato/
total 84
drwxr-xr-x  6 couchpotato   couchpotato    4096 Dec 25 15:20 .
drwxrwxrwx 10 administrator administrator  4096 Dec 25 15:20 ..
-rw-rw-r--  1 couchpotato   couchpotato    1086 Dec 25 15:20 contributing.md
drwxrwxr-x  5 couchpotato   couchpotato    4096 Dec 25 15:20 couchpotato
-rwxrwxr-x  1 couchpotato   couchpotato    4486 Dec 25 15:20 CouchPotato.py
drwxrwxr-x  8 couchpotato   couchpotato    4096 Dec 25 15:20 .git
-rw-rw-r--  1 couchpotato   couchpotato      46 Dec 25 15:20 .gitignore
drwxrwxr-x  2 couchpotato   couchpotato    4096 Dec 25 15:20 init
drwxrwxr-x 40 couchpotato   couchpotato    4096 Dec 25 15:20 libs
-rw-rw-r--  1 couchpotato   couchpotato   35125 Dec 25 15:20 license.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 couchpotato   couchpotato    3849 Dec 25 15:20 README.md
-rw-rw-r--  1 couchpotato   couchpotato      33 Dec 25 15:20 version.py

And when you run it :

/opt$ sudo service couchpotato start
Starting CouchPotato

/opt$ ps -fe | grep couchpotato
997      13998     1  7 15:52 ?        00:00:02 /opt/couchpotato/environ/bin/python CouchPotato.py --quiet --daemon --pid_file=/var/run/couchpotato.pid --data_dir=/var/couchpotato

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There was a bug here for me on ubuntu server 14.04.

The line:
virtualenv ./environ/
had to be amended to place the environ folder inside the couchpotato folder:
virtualenv ./couchpotato/environ/

Otherwise, no problems :)

@ShawnMTherrien fixed. cheers.

Why do people choose when they want to use sudo? Your code is still not "the right way".