How To Install Popcorn Time on CentOS 7 Step by Step

Popcorn Time is an Open source free software BitTorrent client which includes integrated media player. Although other trackers can be added and used manually, popcorn time uses sequential downloading to stream video listed by torrent websites. The files can be searched by genres and categories. Popcorn time is an easy interface to use and has a clear modern look. In this tutorial we will learn how To Install Popcorn Time on CentOS 7.

Prerequisites

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo’ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step by step installation Popcorn Time on a CentOS 7 server.

Install Popcorn Time on CentOS 7

Step 1. First, let’s start by ensuring your system is up-to-date.

yum clean all
yum install -y epel-release
yum -y update

Step 2. Installing Popcorn Time on CentOS 7.

First install some tools to be used for the Popcorn Time installation:

yum install wget xz

Next, use wget command to download the tarballs directly in your system’ s terminal:

### 32-bit ###
wget https://get.popcorntime.sh/build/Popcorn-Time-0.3.10-Linux-32.tar.xz
tar -xvf Popcorn-Time-0.3.10-Linux32.tar.xz
cd Popcorn-Time/
chmod 755 Popcorn-Time
./Popcorn-Time

### 64-bit ###
https://get.popcorntime.sh/build/Popcorn-Time-0.3.10-Linux-64.tar.xz
tar -xvf Popcorn-Time-0.3.10-Linux64.tar.xz
cd Popcorn-Time/
chmod 755 Popcorn-Time
./Popcorn-Time

Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed Popcorn Time. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing Popcorn Time movie player in CentOS 7 system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official Popcorn Time web site.

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