Steps to easily install the popular Popcorn Time online streaming player on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa Linux or later version such as Ubuntu 19.04/18.04 for watching various movies and tv shows.
What is the Popcorn Time app?
Popcorn Time is an app that enables you to watch tons of streaming movies - from classics to new releases - by using the traditional Torrent file interchange service. The difference is that with this app, you don't have to download a thing. Show Movie Thumbnail. The next window upon clicking the Movies Tiles shows Information related to Movie like – Year, Play Time, Genre, No. Of starts, A summary of what the movie is all about, Subtitles availability in Languages (see the flags), etc. Sudo unzip Popcorn-Time-0.4.4-linux64.zip -d /opt/popcorntime/ As a few readers have notified that Popcorn Time 4.4 is not working on their systems (it is fine on my system), I advise you to install the dependencies mentioned in step 0 and run sudo apt-get -f install afterwards. Step 3: Make Popcorn Time accessible for everyone. Download Popcorn Time 3.10 For Windows 7 and above. For Android 4.0.3 and above— For Windows 7 and above— For 32-bit Linux— For 64-bit Linux—For Mac OSX 10.
Porncorn Time is an app for online streaming of movies and TV Show for free using Torrent files. It is an open-source application and available for all major platforms such as Linux, Windows, macOS, and Android. Due to its popularity, various websites using its name to offer apps but the official one is https://popcorntime.app/
So, make sure you visit the above-given link only to download its application for Linux, Windows, and other operating websites.
Popcorn Time streams movies and TV shows from torrents directly into your screen. Although this procedure should work on any other Linux distributions such as Linux Mint, Debian, CentOS etc., the objective is to install Popcorn Time movie streamer on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa.
Requirements to Install PopCorn Time on Linux:
- non-root
sudouser - Working internet connection
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS/18.04 LTS or other Linux such as Mx Linux, Linux Mint, RedHat, CetOS, Fedora, etc. The command will be the same for all of them.
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Step 1: Create a Directory for Popcorn Time app
Well, we can create and run this online streaming app right from Downloads directory, however, to make it safe from accidentally deleting, we are creating a folder in /opt directory.
Step 2: Switch to the pop directory
Now, simply switch to the above-created directory to download and save the Popcorn Time Linux app.
Step 3: Download Popcorn Time Linux Archive
The application is available in two versions for the installation on Linux -32-bit, and 63-bit. You can download the one as per your system CPU architecture.
For 32-bit systems
For 64-bit systems
Step 4: Unzip the archive
Finally, the binaries are on our system, its time to unzip it, so that we run popcorn time on Linux to watch various movies and shows for free. As the file we have downloaded is using .zip extension thus we use unzip command.
In case your system doesn't have an unzip tool then install it :
For Debian & Ubuntu systems.
sudo apt install unzip
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sudo yum install unzip
What is the Popcorn Time app?
Popcorn Time is an app that enables you to watch tons of streaming movies - from classics to new releases - by using the traditional Torrent file interchange service. The difference is that with this app, you don't have to download a thing. Show Movie Thumbnail. The next window upon clicking the Movies Tiles shows Information related to Movie like – Year, Play Time, Genre, No. Of starts, A summary of what the movie is all about, Subtitles availability in Languages (see the flags), etc. Sudo unzip Popcorn-Time-0.4.4-linux64.zip -d /opt/popcorntime/ As a few readers have notified that Popcorn Time 4.4 is not working on their systems (it is fine on my system), I advise you to install the dependencies mentioned in step 0 and run sudo apt-get -f install afterwards. Step 3: Make Popcorn Time accessible for everyone. Download Popcorn Time 3.10 For Windows 7 and above. For Android 4.0.3 and above— For Windows 7 and above— For 32-bit Linux— For 64-bit Linux—For Mac OSX 10.
Porncorn Time is an app for online streaming of movies and TV Show for free using Torrent files. It is an open-source application and available for all major platforms such as Linux, Windows, macOS, and Android. Due to its popularity, various websites using its name to offer apps but the official one is https://popcorntime.app/
So, make sure you visit the above-given link only to download its application for Linux, Windows, and other operating websites.
Popcorn Time streams movies and TV shows from torrents directly into your screen. Although this procedure should work on any other Linux distributions such as Linux Mint, Debian, CentOS etc., the objective is to install Popcorn Time movie streamer on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa.
Requirements to Install PopCorn Time on Linux:
- non-root
sudouser - Working internet connection
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS/18.04 LTS or other Linux such as Mx Linux, Linux Mint, RedHat, CetOS, Fedora, etc. The command will be the same for all of them.
https://herejfil281.weebly.com/blog/karma-karaoke-software-free-download. Contents
Step 1: Create a Directory for Popcorn Time app
Well, we can create and run this online streaming app right from Downloads directory, however, to make it safe from accidentally deleting, we are creating a folder in /opt directory.
Step 2: Switch to the pop directory
Now, simply switch to the above-created directory to download and save the Popcorn Time Linux app.
Step 3: Download Popcorn Time Linux Archive
The application is available in two versions for the installation on Linux -32-bit, and 63-bit. You can download the one as per your system CPU architecture.
For 32-bit systems
For 64-bit systems
Step 4: Unzip the archive
Finally, the binaries are on our system, its time to unzip it, so that we run popcorn time on Linux to watch various movies and shows for free. As the file we have downloaded is using .zip extension thus we use unzip command.
In case your system doesn't have an unzip tool then install it :
For Debian & Ubuntu systems.
sudo apt install unzip
https://plvy.over-blog.com/2020/12/free-batch-file-renamer.html. On CentOS or RHEL
sudo yum install unzip
Command to extract the downloaded Popcorn Archive.
Syntax: sudo unzip filename
If you have 32-bit:
For 64-bit
Step 5: Create a Desktop Shortcut
Although we can directly start the Popcorn-Time without Desktop shortcut using the command /opt/pop/./Popcorn-Time
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However, to make it easy for everyone to run it without every time going through the command terminal, we should create a Desktop shortcut, and here is the way of doing that.
Ctrl+X and press Y and then Enter key to save the file.
Step 6: Make the Desktop shortcut executable
You will see a shortcut on your Desktop. By default, it will not run this streaming application because it is not yet executable. To do that right-click on the created Desktop shortcut and select Properties.
Now, go to Permission Tab and mark 'Allow executing file as Program'. Umark 6 1 – watermarking for digital photos without.
Step 7: Run Popcorn Time
Click on the create a desktop shortcut to start watching online movies and shows on Linux distro.
Create a keyboard shortcut for popcorn time
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If you don't want to create a Desktop shortcut due to some reason then simply assign a keyboard shortcut to popcorn time to start the application when you want.
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- Go to Ubuntu Applications.
- Search for Settings and open it.
- Now, select keyboard settings from the left side options menu.
- Scroll down to the end and click on the + icon.
- Give the shortcut a name, for example, Popcorn.
- Add the command for the same. Copy-paste this:
/opt/pop/Popcorn-TimeIf you have installed it somewhere else then use that path. However, in case you have followed this tutorial then use the given one. - Now, set the Keyboard shortcut whatever you want. However, just make sure that has not been assigned to some other application or service on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Therefore, here we are using SHIFT+ALT+P. You can use the same. To register the shortcut you just need to press and hold the keys on your keyboard one by one.
- Once you are done, Add the keyboard shortcut for popcorn time and close the settings window.
- Now, whenever you want to run this online movie and tv show streaming application. Just hit created shortcut and the app will be in front of you.
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