Install Couchpotato on Ubuntu 14.04+

CouchPotato for Ubuntu 14.04 will get you all of the feature length media files you desire from a watchlist you have created. It can grab the media files from either usenet or torrents in your automated system.

Let get the dependency and GIT installed 

apt-get update && apt-get install git-core libffi-dev libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libxslt1-dev libxml2-dev python python-pip python-dev build-essential -y

Now lets use GIT to clone the current release

git clone https://github.com/RuudBurger/CouchPotatoServer /opt/couchpotato

Change the ownership of the CouchPotato directory to your user

chown -R user:user /opt/couchpotato

 Test if CouchPotato works

python /opt/couchpotato/CouchPotato.py --daemon

You should be able to see the CouchPotato web interface on http://ip.address:5050

Now Lets get Couchpotato to start on boot

Copy the default CouchPotato init

cp /opt/couchpotato/init/ubuntu.default /etc/default/couchpotato

Open the configuration file

nano /etc/default/couchpotato

Add or change the following lines, “username" is your log on user.

# COPY THIS FILE TO /etc/default/couchpotato 
# OPTIONS: CP_HOME, CP_USER, CP_DATA, CP_PIDFILE, PYTHON_BIN, CP_OPTS, SSD_OPTS

CP_HOME=/opt/couchpotato
CP_DATA=/opt/couchpotato
CP_USER=yourusername
CP_PIDFILE=/home/yourusername/.couchpotato.pid

 Press Ctrl+X, press Y and then Enter to save and leave nano.

Copy the default CouchPotato init.d file

cp /opt/couchpotato/init/ubuntu /etc/init.d/couchpotato

Make the file executable

chmod +x /etc/init.d/couchpotato

Update so CouchPotato autostarts on boot

update-rc.d couchpotato defaults

 Now your All set!