How to install CouchPotato on CentOS 6.9
To install CouchPotato on CentOS 6.9
CouchPotato is an open source multi-platform application, used for downloading movies automatically. It also passes the movie torrent files to torrent downloaders or NZB files to NZB downloaders. Using CouchPotato will not save you lot of time as it works flawlessly. Just let CouchPotato know the name of movies you are looking to download, and as soon as their online print is available, CouchPotato will download and save it for you on your specified location on the hard disk. It is pretty simple to install, configure and use this application and in this article, you will be briefed about the method to install CouchPotato on CentOS 6.9
Installing CouchPotato
It is very essential to add all the dependencies of CouchPotato in your system before you kick-start its installation. So, make sure you add those dependencies by running the following command.
[root@linuxhelp1 ~]# yum install git-core python
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security
Setting up Install Process
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: ftp.iitm.ac.in
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perl-Error.noarch 1:0.17015-4.el6 perl-Git.noarch 0:1.7.1-9.el6_9
Complete!
Once all those dependencies are added, you can download the CouchPotato package by making use of the following command.
[root@linuxhelp1 ~]# git clone https://github.com/RuudBurger/CouchPotatoServer couchpotato
Initialized empty Git repository in /root/couchpotato/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 50380, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done.
remote: Total 50380 (delta 1), reused 1 (delta 1), pack-reused 50377
Receiving objects: 100% (50380/50380), 22.15 MiB | 470 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (30728/30728), done.
After that, enter into the downloaded directory as follows.
[root@linuxhelp1 ~]# cd couchpotato/
Once inside, list the directory by invoking the following command.
[root@linuxhelp1 couchpotato]# ll
total 88
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1542 Sep 9 16:55 config.rb
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Sep 9 16:55 couchpotato
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4660 Sep 9 16:55 CouchPotato.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5740 Sep 9 16:55 Gruntfile.js
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 9 16:55 init
drwxr-xr-x 40 root root 4096 Sep 9 16:55 libs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35125 Sep 9 16:55 license.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 728 Sep 9 16:55 package.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5995 Sep 9 16:55 README.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 175 Sep 9 16:55 requirements-dev.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33 Sep 9 16:55 version.py
Here you need to start CouchPotato by executing the following command.
[root@linuxhelp1 couchpotato]# python CouchPotato.py
Exception in thread Thread-231 (most likely raised during interpreter shutdown):
Traceback (most recent call last):
File " /usr/lib64/python2.6/threading.py" , line 532, in __bootstrap_inner
File " /usr/lib64/python2.6/threading.py" , line 484, in run
File " /root/couchpotato/libs/axl/axel.py" , line 210, in _execute
While executing the previous command , CouchPotato application gets open in the browser.
Enter all the user details in the fields.
Once you are done with all the details, click on I' m Ready. You will be taken to the login page.
Fill the login credentials and then click login button.
You will be taken to the home page of the CouchPotato application.
With this, the installation of CouchPotato on CentOS 6.9 gets complete. Enjoy downloading all your favorite movies with this application.
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