Set Up a Streaming Media Server – Pt. 6 – Install CouchPotato

CouchPotato is like SickBeard, but for movies. It will use torrents to download the files instead of Usenet.

We’ll need to download the software into a hidden folder in our home folder.

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/RuudBurger/CouchPotatoServer.git .couchpotato

Now let’s enable some config files and make sure CouchPotato starts on boot.

sudo cp .couchpotato/init/ubuntu /etc/init.d/couchpotato
sudo cp .couchpotato/init/ubuntu.default /etc/default/couchpotato
sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/couchpotato
sudo vim /etc/default/couchpotato

Make sure this file has the following content:

CP_HOME=/home/server/.couchpotato
CP_USER=server
CP_DATA=/home/server/.config/couchpotato
CP_PIDFILE=/home/server/.pid/couchpotato.pid

Then we’ll set some permissions and start CouchPotato.

mkdir .pid
chmod -R 700 .pid
service couchpotato start