Installing Popcorn Time on Ubuntu 16.x

InstallPopcornTime.md

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

hey, so what happens after step 4 .$ sudo nano /usr/share/applications/popcorntime.desktop???? im stuck and obviously im a noob :p
thnx

You just have to paste the following content to that popcorntime.desktop file and save it using any text editor you like. Here the instruction is when you want to use nano as your text editor for the task.

Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Name=Butter
Exec=/opt/popcorntime/Popcorn-Time
Icon=/opt/popcorntime/src/app/images/icon.png
Categories=Application;```

Thanks for this. I've got an old version of Popcorntime CE (0.4.1-5 Beta - New Year's Eve in front of the door - 28 December 2016) associated with popcorntime.ag that I think I need to uninstall first to get this working, but struggling to work out how to do so, can you help by any chance?

Oh, but maybe I don't want this version here at all as according to this http://popcorn-time.is/official-statement.html#Malware2 the popcorntime.sh version has malware :-/

If you're using Ubuntu that makes sense that you at least know that popcorn.sh is the website and you can download the latest release from there. 😄
Thanks for the procedure brother.

hi, I am not able to run the second option. its downloading. but not unpacking. what should i do?

thanks you.

I'm a noob to linux. I followed the above steps but I'm missing something.....how to I launch popcorntime?

I managed to add app to desktop in a LMint by creating a new app shortcut in the desktop context menu. That's the only way it worked.

Thanks!!!! Now you just can search for butter or popcorn on the gnome search and it's registered :)

How can we create a deb package with all these steps? That'd be awesome.

After step 4 we have to make the file executable
sudo chmod +x /usr/share/applications/popcorntime.desktop 😉

I tried the above but after execution of step 4, I wasn't able to launch the application. 😢

@lauragift21 Do this if you're unable to launch the app.

sudo apt-get install libgconf-2-4

tarun 1188 may you be blessed dude

@tarun1188, thanks for the info, I was stuck there as well.

exelent for experienced linux user, a bit confusing for new ones

@taurun1188, you are life saver!

Followed instructions and still cannot get app to execute.

Followed the instructions as mentioned on Ubuntu 18.04, works perfectly.
Thanks!

what about Ubuntu 16.4 ?

For Ubuntu 16.04 you may need this string:
sudo ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.0

Hello, i dont understand what i need to do in 4 (creating the application launcher)
Plz help me

After step 4 we have to make the file executable
sudo chmod +x /usr/share/applications/popcorntime.desktop wink

You sir are a legend. Thanks

Thank you sir, for the beautiful and simple instructions.

Pro Tip

4. Creating the application launcher

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Name=Popcorn Time
Exec=/opt/popcorntime/Popcorn-Time --class="Popcorn-Time"
Icon=/opt/popcorntime/src/app/images/icon.png
Categories=Application;

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