How to watch Acestream / Sopcast Ubuntu 16.04 LTS?

It's now one step installation:

sudo snap install acestreamplayer

and to run it:

acestreamplayer.engine --client-console
acestreamplayer

If running the above commands after the successful snap installation fails with a command not found error, you might need to add /snap/bin to your $PATH or run it using the following commands:

snap run acestreamplayer.engine --client-console
snap run acestreamplayer

Based on info @ https://www.cnx-software.com/2018/04/15/how-to-install-and-use-acestream-easily-in-ubuntu-mint-linux/

It works for me. Install only acestream-engine.

1. Install acestream-engine

   echo 'deb http://repo.acestream.org/ubuntu/ trusty main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/acestream.list
   sudo wget -O - http://repo.acestream.org/keys/acestream.public.key | sudo apt-key add -
   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install acestream-engine
   

2. Install Kodi (XBMC)

   sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa
   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install kodi kodi-pvr-iptvsimple kodi-audioencoder-*
   

3. Install addon p2p-streams for Kodi (video)

   https://superrepo.org/get-started/

4. Start acestreamengine no root

   acestreamengine --client-console
   

   or

   acestreamengine --client-gtk
   

5. Start Kodi

   Video - addons - p2p-streams - Addon Website-parsere

It is the only way.

I got this option running in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: https://github.com/jonian/acestream-launcher

Instructions:

1.Prerequisites: If you are unsure that you have all the dependencies, run:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python python-psutil python-pexpect python-notify2 acestream-engine vlc

2.Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/jonian/acestream-launcher.git

3.Run install.sh script as root:

sudo bash ./install.sh

Now, once you have the URL of the streaming, run:

acestream-launcher URL

For example:

acestream-launcher acestream://edca97797b5749855c9c0d512312312312323

Enjoy.

The easiest way: Snap (I used it without problems in Ubuntu Mate 16.04 and now in Mate 18.04 beta).

To install just enter the following into the terminal:

sudo snap install acestreamplayer

To run for the first time, it is recommended to use the terminal:

snap run acestreamplayer

(without sudo)

The first configuration takes some time, it seems to block, but when it is finished, the player and the server icon will appear. And also the two shortcuts (server and player) are created in the Sound&Video Menu

Cheers

Found that it has been packaged here:

https://snapcraft.io/acestreamplayer

Working fine for me.