Install CouchPotato on Debian Linux •

CouchPotato is currently the only PVR solution for automating long video downloading from usenet and torrents. Nzbdrone will eventually have film features built-in but until then CouchPotato is our only option. I see many complaints about CouchPotato on reddit but it generally works. It is able to grab via torrents as well. Just add flicks to your watchlist and CouchPotato will take care of the rest. Start up your Debian Wheezy, Jessie or later installation and SSH into the machine.

Usenet Provider	Backbone	Retention	Speed	Connections	VPN	Monthly	Annual
UsenetServer	UsenetServer	3199	Unlimited	30	Yes	$10	$95.40
Newshosting	Newshosting	3199	Unlimited	30	Yes	$10	$99
Frugal	Frugal	3000	Unlimited	20	No	$4.16	$50
Usenetlink	Cloudgate	2000	100 Mbit	30	No	$15	$140

Install CouchPotato on Debian

Install git and python

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 CouchPotato files from github

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

Change ownership of the CouchPotato directory to avoid permission issues, replace username with your username

sudo chown -R username:username /opt/CouchPotato

Run CouchPotato to make sure it works

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

Make CouchPotato Autostart on Boot

CouchPotato init.d Script

Create the default CouchPotato file that the init.d script reads settings from

sudo nano /etc/default/couchpotato

Paste this, replace username with your username in the CP_USER and CP_PIDFILE lines

CP_HOME=/opt/CouchPotato
CP_USER=username
CP_PIDFILE=/home/username/.couchpotato.pid
CP_DATA=/opt/CouchPotato

Copy the default CouchPotato init.d script

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

Make the CouchPotato init.d script executable

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

Enable the CouchPotato init.d script to start on boot

sudo update-rc.d /etc/init.d/couchpotato defaults

If you see this error just reboot and rerun the update-rc.d command

update-rc.d: error: unable to read /etc/init.d//etc/init.d/couchpotato

Reboot to test

reboot

Open your browser and go to: http://ip.address:5050/ and you can configure CouchPotato