Those of us who love sports and do not have access to all current sports channels, generally face the problem that to enjoy it we must make use of various pages that transmit online matches, most of them request install AceStream, which tends to be a bit complex to install on Linux.
In this guide we will teach how install AceStream on Linux without dying in the attempt, providing solutions to the most common problems today. Its use and the content you access is your total responsibility.
What is AceStream?
acestream is a multimedia platform quite innovative, which has taken the reproduction of audiovisuals on the Internet to a higher level. For this, it has implemented a universal multimedia file upload manager, which uses the most advanced P2P technologies, guaranteeing an efficient data storage and transmission process.
Ace Stream software offers us a series of benefits in which we can highlight:
- Possibility of viewing online broadcasts (TV, custom streams, movies, cartoons, etc.), with high audio and image quality.
- Listen to music online in a format that does not lose any quality.
- View torrents online, no need to wait for it to fully download.
- View content on remote devices (Apple TV, Chromecast, etc.) over communication protocols such as AirPlay, Google Cast and others.
- Allows integration with various applications.
How to install AceStream on Linux
To install AceStream on Linux we must follow various steps depending on the distro you use, we will focus on Arch Linux and Ubuntu, but we hope in the future to be able to install it on other distros.
Install AceStream on Arch Linux and derivatives
The main reason I have made this article is because many have had trouble installing AceStream on Arch Linux, Antergos, Manjaros and derivatives, the main cause is that the pkgbuild of the plugin acestream-mozilla-plugin It gives an error when installing, the solution is extremely simple.
We are going to install the acestream-mozilla-plugin which will also install us acestream-engine y acestream-player-data what are the packages needed to reproduce AceStream from firefox.
First of all we must open a terminal and execute the following command:
gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys FCF986EA15E6E293A5644F10B4322F04D67658D8
It will fix the verification problem that prevents installing the dependency that is necessary to install acestream-mozilla-plugin.
Then we execute the following command
yaourt -S acestream-mozilla-plugin
On repeated occasions we will be asked if we want to install various dependencies, we must say yes to all.
Install AceStream on Ubuntu and derivatives
Install AceStream on Ubuntu 14.04 and derivatives
For users of ubuntu and derivatives up to version 14.04, the installation of AceStream will be quite simple, they only have to execute the following commands from the terminal:
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-full
Install AceStream on Ubuntu 16.04 and derivatives
Those who will have to struggle a little more are the users of Ubuntu 16.04 and derivatives since acestream does not have support for this version, but thanks to this article, I managed to install it.
The first thing we are going to do is download and install some dependencies that you will not be able to download from the official repositories, make sure to install the appropriate ones for the architecture of your distro:
64bit architecture:
- Download and install libgnutls-deb0-28_3.3.15-5ubuntu2_amd64.deb you can do it from the following link: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/216005292/libgnutls-deb0-28_3.3.15-5ubuntu2_amd64.deb
- Download and install in the order in which the following dependencies are presented: acestream-player-compat_3.0.2-1.1_amd64.deb; acestream-engine_3.0.3-0.2_amd64.deb; acestream-player-data_3.0.2-1.1_amd64.deb; acestream-player_3.0.2-1.1_amd64.deb You can download each one from the following link: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id= … e_web#list
32bit architecture:
- Download and install libgnutls-deb0-28_3.3.15-5ubuntu2_i386.deb you can do it from the following link: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/216005191/libgnutls-deb0-28_3.3.15-5ubuntu2_i386.deb
- Download and install in the order in which the following dependencies are presented: acestream-player-compat_3.0.2-1.1_i386.deb; acestream-engine_3.0.3-0.2_i386.deb; acestream-player-data_3.0.2-1.1_i386.deb; acestream-player_3.0.2-1.1_i386.deb You can download each one from the following link: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id= … e_web#list
Next we must continue with the usual installation of AceStream as we did for version 14.04, open a terminal and execute:
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-full
In some cases it is necessary to start the service acestream-engine.service, for this we execute the following commands from the terminal:
systemctl start acestream-engine.service systemctl enable acestream-engine.service
With this tutorial, we hope you can enjoy this great multimedia transmission protocol that uses all the capacity of P2P technology.