How to Install CouchPotato on Raspberry Pi with OSMC

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: SSH into your working instance of OSMC on your Raspberry Pi or Raspberry Pi 2.

     For example: ssh [email protected]
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   Step 2: Create a user

   ,, Edit its section ExecStart path. cd /opt/CouchPotatoServer sudo vim ./init/couchpotato.service Find the line "ExecStart=/var/lib/CouchPotatoServer/CouchPotato.py" Change it to new line "ExecStart=/opt/CouchPotatoServer/CouchPotato.py ,, Enjoy results on http://192.168.xxx.xxx:8080 (or whatever your Raspberry Pi IP address is) sudo systemctl start couchpotato
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   Step 3: mod his groups

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   Step 4: and make empty home folder for ~/.couchpotato configs sudo useradd couchpotato sudo usermod -a -G osmc couchpotato sudo mkdir /home/couchpotato sudo chown -R couchpotato:couchpotato /home/couchpotato

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   Step 5: Clone (download) CouchPotato and assign right folder ownership sudo git clone http://github.com/RuudBurger/CouchPotatoServer /opt/CouchPotatoServer sudo chown -R couchpotato:couchpotato /opt/CouchPotatoServer

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   Step 6: Create the correctly configured systemd unit for CouchPotato.

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   Step 7: Install a systemd unit of CouchPotato sudo cp ./init/couchpotato.service /etc/systemd/system/couchpotato.service

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   Step 8: Launch the daemon.

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