Install Popcorn time from source code in linux

Radenko Bogdanovic

10 years ago

Popcorn Time is a multi-platform video streaming application. It is an HTML/CSS/JavaScript application (NodeJS) rendered by a browser (node-webkit). The streaming is done by a torrent client for NodeJS (Peerflix). All the informations (torrent, images, informations) are automatically fetched by the application from different sources and are nicely put together.

Build Popcorn Time on CentOS/Fedora and Debian/Ubuntu/Mint Linux

First, Install system dependencies:

# sudo yum install -y nodejs rubygem-compass wget git

# sudo apt-get install nodejs npm wget git -y

Now, get Popcorn Time source code:

# git clone https://git.popcorntime.io/stash/scm/pt/popcorn-app.git

Popcorn Time is written in javascript so we’ll need grunt and the rest of the project dependencies. We change into the project directory, that we just pulled with git, so all of these get installed locally under node_modules.

# cd popcorn-app
# npm install grunt-cli bower
# npm install

Build Popcorn Time:

# node_modules/grunt-cli/bin/grunt build --platforms=linux64

Install Popcorn Time

Now, let’s move the build to a place where we can launch it easily:

# sudo cp -r build/releases/Popcorn-Time/linux64/Popcorn-Time/ /opt/
# sudo ln -s /opt/Popcorn-Time/Popcorn-Time /usr/bin/

Create Desktop shortcut:

# sudo wget http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Popcorn_Time_logo.png -O /usr/share/pixmaps/popcorntime.png

echo "[Desktop Entry]
      Comment=Watch movies and TV Shows
      Terminal=false
      Name=PopcornTime
      Categories=AudioVideo;
      Exec=/opt/Popcorn-Time/Popcorn-Time
      Type=Application
      Icon=popcorntime" > ~/Desktop/PopcornTime.desktop

chmod +x ~/Desktop/PopcornTime.desktop

That is all!