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How to Install SopCast Player in Ubuntu 16.04 / 16.10

Last updated: March 5, 2017

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For those who want to install SopCast Player, a Linux GUI front-end for the p2p streaming technology developed by SopCast, here’s a PPA with sopcast-player 0.8.5 for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 16.10, Linux Mint 18, and derivatives.

Open terminal from Unity Dash, App Launcher, or via Ctrl+Alt+T shortcut keys. When it opens, run following commands one by one:

1. Run command to add the PPA repository:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linuxthebest.net/sopcast

Type in your password (no visual feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter.

2. Then install sopcast-player package either via Synaptic Package Manager or by running commands in terminal:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install sopcast-player

3. Remove the PPA repository afterwards, since the player is not updated any more.

sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:linuxthebest.net/sopcast

For those who don’t want to add PPA, manually grab the DEB packages here.

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    8 responses to How to Install SopCast Player in Ubuntu 16.04 / 16.10

    1. Lucas May 10, 2017 at 7:30 pm

      Thx a lot!

    2. Igor August 12, 2017 at 2:12 pm

      wow, awesome, thanks a lot

    3. Moud August 16, 2017 at 8:50 pm

      thanks a lot

    4. Cloud Ng August 19, 2017 at 10:02 am

      Thank you!

    5. gimmy August 22, 2017 at 7:11 pm

      thanks !!

    6. R August 26, 2017 at 4:35 pm

      Traceback (most recent call last):
      File “/usr/bin/add-apt-repository”, line 11, in
      from softwareproperties.SoftwareProperties import SoftwareProperties, shortcut_handler
      File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py”, line 27, in
      import apt_pkg
      ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘apt_pkg’

    7. niceguyeddie September 19, 2017 at 2:50 am

      just installed thanks for the guide.

    8. max September 26, 2017 at 6:34 pm

      Thanks a lot :)