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How to Install Couchpotato to XBMC Live

SSH to your XBMC Live machine

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git-core
cd /usr/local/sbin
sudo git clone http://github.com/RuudBurger/CouchPotato.git
sudo mv CouchPotato couchpotato

cd /usr/local/sbin/couchpotato

sudo cp initd.ubuntu /etc/init.d/couchpotato
sudo cp default.ubuntu /etc/default/couchpotato

sudo nano /etc/default/couchpotato

–> Change Run as to xbmc
–> Change path to /usr/local/sbin/couchpotato
–> Change port to whatever you want.
–> Change Daemon to 1


sudo chmod a+x /etc/init.d/couchpotato
sudo update-rc.d couchpotato defaults
sudo service couchpotato start