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How to install Popcorn Time on Ubuntu

Posted on 20 February, 201920 February, 2019 by admin

Popcorn Time is a free movies online cinema as a Netflix. Netflix is an expensive online cinema and Popcorn Time is the same quality budget app. Here is the official site where you can download the fresh version Popcorn Time Official site.

Be careful! Now, appeared a few other sites that pretended to be Popcorn Time, there could be melisious apps. Important: Make sure you use an official site!

 

Download from there. Now, there is version 3.10 https://get.popcorntime.sh/build/Popcorn-Time-0.3.10-Linux-64.tar.xz.

 

Extract the file in ~/Download folder.

extract popcorn-time archive
extract popcorn-time archive

 

Run the program with command

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neo@neo-virtual-machine:~/Downloads$ ./Popcorn-Time-0.3.10-Linux-64/Popcorn-Time

 

 

Usually, third-party apps is installed to /opt folder, so let’s we do it too. Copy past the folder /Popcorn-Time-0.3.10-Linux-64 to /opt

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neo@neo-virtual-machine:~/Downloads$ sudo mv Popcorn-Time-0.3.10-Linux-64 /opt
[sudo] password for neo:
neo@neo-virtual-machine:~/Downloads$

 

let’s create a symlink in a folder /usr/bin

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neo@neo-virtual-machine:~/Downloads$ sudo ln -s /opt/Popcorn-Time-0.3.10-Linux-64/Popcorn-Time /usr/bin/popcorn-time
neo@neo-virtual-machine:~/Downloads$

 

you can run popcorn with a command popcorn-time from any user and any terminal

 

Let’s add to the desktop unity dash create a file in with vim

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sudo vim /usr/share/applications/popcorntime.desktop

 

and add the next text

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[Desktop Entry]
Version = 1.0
Type = Application
Terminal = false
Name = Popcorn Time
Exec = /usr/bin/popcorn-time
Icon = /opt/Popcorn-Time-0.3.10-Linux-64/src/app/images/icon.png
Categories = Application;

 

Open the dash and you’ll see the icon

popcorn-time unity dash
popcorn-time unity dash

 

That’s it! Watch the movie as on netflix with a budget online cinema as a Popcorn Time 🙂

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