{"id":6588,"date":"2017-03-05T14:26:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T14:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=6588"},"modified":"2017-03-05T14:26:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T14:26:08","slug":"install-sopcast-player-ubuntu-16-04-16-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2017\/03\/install-sopcast-player-ubuntu-16-04-16-10\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install SopCast Player in Ubuntu 16.04 \/ 16.10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/sopcast-icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/sopcast-icon.png\" alt=\"sopcast-icon\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6589\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For those who want to install SopCast Player, a Linux GUI front-end for the p2p streaming technology developed by SopCast, here&#8217;s a PPA with sopcast-player 0.8.5 for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 16.10, Linux Mint 18, and derivatives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/sopcast-player.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/sopcast-player-600x330.jpg\" alt=\"Sopcast Player in Ubuntu Unity\" width=\"600\" height=\"330\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/sopcast-player-600x330.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/sopcast-player-450x247.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/sopcast-player.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Open <b>terminal<\/b> from Unity Dash, App Launcher, or via <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> shortcut keys. When it opens, run following commands one by one:<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Run command to add the <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~linuxthebest.net\/+archive\/ubuntu\/sopcast\" target=\"_blank\">PPA repository<\/a>:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linuxthebest.net\/sopcast<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type in your password (no visual feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/sopcast-xenial-ppa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/sopcast-xenial-ppa-600x91.jpg\" alt=\"sopcast-xenial-ppa\" width=\"600\" height=\"91\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/sopcast-xenial-ppa-600x91.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/sopcast-xenial-ppa-450x68.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/sopcast-xenial-ppa.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Then install sopcast-player package either via Synaptic Package Manager or by running commands in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install sopcast-player<\/pre>\n<p><b>3.<\/b> Remove the PPA repository afterwards, since the player is not updated any more.<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:linuxthebest.net\/sopcast<\/pre>\n<p>For those who don&#8217;t want to add PPA, manually grab the DEB packages <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~linuxthebest.net\/+archive\/ubuntu\/sopcast\/+packages\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who want to install SopCast Player, a Linux GUI front-end for the p2p streaming technology developed by SopCast, here&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1078],"class_list":["post-6588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-sopcast-player"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}