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I downloaded the Popcorn-Time from official link. When I try to execute "Popcorn-Time" file, using ./Popcorn-Time, it outputs the following error:

error while loading shared libraries: libudev.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I've tried installing libudev0 by using:

apt-get install libudev0:i386

But that outputs the following error: 

E: Package 'libudev0:i386' has no installation candidate

The image below contains all extracted files from .tar: enter image description here

Anyone knows how I can execute Popcorn?

pzkpfw
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Shinomoto Asakura
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    You say that you downloaded PT from "official link" yet you give no link. How do you expect anyone to help you? There are multiple forks of PT and it's impossible to help you without knowing exactly which one you are trying to run. – pzkpfw Aug 11 '17 at 01:26
  • This looks like the same problem as How to run/use popcorn-time? That question mentions the source distribution but the answers apply to the binary one. The version you're installing expects libudev.so.0, which would be provided by the libudev0 package but no recent versions of Ubuntu has that package. All recent releases have the libudev1 instead, which provides libudev.so.1. You will almost surely prefer to use a newer version of the software, with which you won't have this problem, but that question should make it possible to install this version. – Eliah Kagan Aug 11 '17 at 02:17

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If you're still trying to figure it out. I managed to get mine to work after a lot of fiddling. I did grab the source from here https://popcorntime.sh/ then I used the commands Ramesh posted earlier. I did not use the final part though and just checked the extracted folder. You would see that there's a file in the folder called Popcorn Time. Drag and drop to terminal and it should work flawlessly.

Hope this helps!

Aaron Jared Bagay
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  • If popcorntime.sh is the source he already used it's impossible this answer is correct. From his output you can see that he clearly is missing a library, which this answer does nothing to resolve. If he got it from somewhere else, it's possible this works because popcorntime.sh somehow bundles the library or is dependent on another library (that is installed). – pzkpfw Aug 11 '17 at 01:32
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libudev0:i386 does not look like the name of an ubuntu package. What happens if you run:

sudo apt-get install libudev0

Please supply the full output in your original question if this does not resolve your issue.

In the future, you can Google "libudev0:i386 ubuntu package" and you will see from the results that the name is in fact libudev0.

pzkpfw
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    libudev0:i386 means the libudev0 package for the i386 architecture (32-bit PCs). The amd64 versions of Ubuntu (for 64-bit PCs) can install i386 packages. In recent releases it works out of the box with this syntax. The problem isn't that libudev0 must be installed instead of libudev0:i386, but that current releases have libudev1 instead. See this comment and question. – Eliah Kagan Aug 11 '17 at 02:27
  • Thanks for the clarification, I'll leave my (incorrect) answer as-is and mark it as community wiki in case someone wants to improve it. – pzkpfw Aug 11 '17 at 15:11