AnimeWatch | No longer maintained , only for legacy purpose | Media Player library

For Arch Linux users, AnimeWatch is available in AUR as animewatch-pyqt4 , animewatch-pyqt5 and animewatch-pyqt5-git (thanks to Arch linux forum member sesese9). Arch users can install it using 'yaourt' or any other conventional method. Addons of pyqt4 and pyqt5 version are incompatible. Hence whenever user upgrade pyqt4 version to pyqt5 or downgrade pyqt5 version to pyqt4, then they have to manually remove '~/.config/AnimeWatch/src/' directory, before restart of newly upgraded or downgraded version. Otherwise player won't load addons or might even crash. Ubuntu or Debian based distro users can directly go to Release section or package directory,download appropriate .deb package and install it using. If 'gdebi' is not installed then install it using.
For Arch Linux users, AnimeWatch is available in AUR as animewatch-pyqt4 , animewatch-pyqt5 and animewatch-pyqt5-git (thanks to Arch linux forum member sesese9). Arch users can install it using 'yaourt' or any other conventional method. Addons of pyqt4 and pyqt5 version are incompatible. Hence whenever user upgrade pyqt4 version to pyqt5 or downgrade pyqt5 version to pyqt4, then they have to manually remove '~/.config/AnimeWatch/src/' directory, before restart of newly upgraded or downgraded version. Otherwise player won't load addons or might even crash.
Ubuntu or Debian based distro users can directly go to Release section or package directory,download appropriate .deb package and install it using sudo gdebi pkg_name.deb. If 'gdebi' is not installed then install it using 'sudo apt-get install gdebi'. If user want to install directly from source: $ git clone https://github.com/kanishka-linux/AnimeWatch $ cd AnimeWatch/AnimeWatch-Debian-PyQt5 $ python3 create_deb.py Above three steps will create .deb package from latest source, which users can install using gdebi. gdebi will resolve all the dependencies while installing the package. Normally dpkg -i is used for installing .deb package in Debian based distros, but 'dpkg' won't install dependencies automatically, which users have to install manually as per instructions given below. Hence try to use gdebi for convenience. Note: From version number 2.8.0-0 onwards, only PyQt5 version will be available. It is difficult to maintain two different versions (i.e. PyQt4 and PyQt5) of the same programme. AnimeWatch 2.7.0-0 was the last PyQt4 release. All the subsequent release will be PyQt5 only.
Using setup.py located in Python-SETUP directory: $ git clone https://github.com/kanishka-linux/AnimeWatch $ cd AnimeWatch/Python-SETUP $ python setup.py sdist (or python3 setup.py sdist) $ cd dist $ sudo pip3 install 'pkg_available_in_directory' (or pip install 'pkg_available_in_directory') pip3 will essentially install most of the python-based dependencies along with the package. Users only have to install non-python based dependencies such as mplayer/mpv,ffmpegthumbnailer,libtorrent and curl/wget manually. On windows ffmpegthumbnailer is not available, hence thumbnails will be generated by either mpv or mplayer itself. From non-python dependencies, users need to install atleast mpv (or mplayer) as playback engine; and atleast curl (or wget) for fetching web pages apart from default pycurl, in case there is some problem with pycurl. If pycurl doesn't work or can't be installed, then users should edit other_options.txt file and set 'GET_LIBRARY' to either 'curl' or 'wget'. Note: GNU/Linux distros should install PyQt5 and other python based dependencies from their own repositories using their native package manager instead of using pip, in order to avoid conflicting files or other dependecies problems due to differing naming schemes of the package. They should remove or comment out the 'install_requires' field in the setup.py, before using this method. Once application is installed, launch the application using command animewatch or animewatch_console from the terminal.
Common Method: Users have to manually install all the dependencies listed below. Then they should clone the repository and go to AnimeWatch-PyQt5 or AnimeWatch-PyQt4-Stable directory. Open terminal in that directory and run 'python3 install.py' (or 'python install.py' if default python points to python3). Application launcher will be created in '~/.local/share/applications/'. Or they can simply click (or execute using command line) 'animewatch-start' shell script located in the directory to start the player directly without copying files anywhere.