Install CouchPotato Ubuntu 14.x and Later

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. I recommend usenet because you won't use any of your own precious upstream bandwidth. You need to have a usenet provider like UsenetServer and a downloader like Sabnzbd or NZBGet. If all these requirements are checked, let's get started.

Install CouchPotato Ubuntu

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

Install lxml and pyopenssl, lxml takes some time as it needs to be compiled.

sudo pip install lxml cryptography pyopenssl

Copy the CouchPotato git directory

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

Change the ownership of the CouchPotato directory to your user

sudo 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

You can leave this open but I recommend finishing this guide before you configure anything further.

Autostart CouchPotato

Copy the default CouchPotato init

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

Open the configuration file

sudo nano /etc/default/couchpotato

Add or change the following lines, yourusername 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
CP_OPTS=--daemon

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

Copy the default CouchPotato init.d file

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

Make the file executable

sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/couchpotato

Update so CouchPotato autostarts on boot

sudo update-rc.d couchpotato defaults

If CouchPotato autostart on boot fails, read on

You can solve the failing init.d script which will fix the /usr/bin/python: Permission denied error you may have gotten from following other guides. This rc.local method will solve the couchpotato fails to start problem.

Open up /etc/rc.local

sudo nano /etc/rc.local

Add the following lines to the bottom before exit 0.

Do not add the extra exit 0

/etc/init.d/couchpotato start

exit 0

Ctrl+X, Y and Enter to save and exit

Update CouchPotato

cd /opt/couchpotato

Pull new updates

git pull

Now you can configure CouchPotato.