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.