How To Install Sopcast on Ubuntu 16.04

To Install Sopcast on Ubuntu 16.04

Sopcast is a simple, free way to broadcast video and audio or watch the video and listen to radio on the Internet. Adopting P2P(Peer-to-Peer) technology, It is very efficient and easy to use. Installing Sopcast is also as simple as its functionality, and this article demonstrates the method to install Sopcast on Ubuntu 16.04.

Installing Sopcast

It is really very essential to add the necessary repository before you begin with the installation of Sopcast on your Ubuntu machine. You can do that by running the following command.

root@linuxhelp11:~# add-apt-repository ppa:linuxthebest.net/sopcast
More info: https://launchpad.net/~linuxthebest.net/+archive/ubuntu/sopcast
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpi2ah5fia/secring.gpg'  created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpi2ah5fia/pubring.gpg'  created
gpg: requesting key B570F8A1 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmpi2ah5fia/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key B570F8A1: public key " Launchpad PPA for fox"  imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
OK

Once it is added, make sure you update the newly added repository with the help of the following command.

root@linuxhelp11:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/linuxthebest.net/sopcast/ubuntu xenial InRelease [18.1 kB]
Get:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/linuxthebest.net/sopcast/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages [724 B]
Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [102 kB]        
Get:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/linuxthebest.net/sopcast/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages [724 B]
Get:6 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [102 kB]
Get:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/linuxthebest.net/sopcast/ubuntu xenial/main Translation-en [344 B]
Get:8 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [102 kB]
Fetched 326 kB in 2s (124 kB/s)   
Reading package lists... Done

Once it is done, you shall proceed with the installation of Sopcast in the following manner.

root@linuxhelp11:~#  apt-get install sopcast-player -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  python-gnome2
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  sopcast-player
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 374 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/195 kB of archives.
After this operation, 2,018 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package sopcast-player.
(Reading database ... 208281 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../sopcast-player_0.8.5-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking sopcast-player (0.8.5-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160415-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Setting up sopcast-player (0.8.5-1ubuntu1) ...

Go to ubuntu dashboard and type sopcast , itshows app icon, click the icon to open.

Sopcast application is now open, you can play your videos with it now.

With this, the installation of Sopcast is completed.