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