If you run Plex on an Ubuntu server, then you need to install updates manually and that seems to involve going to the Plex website, searching for updates, downloading them and then figuring out how to install them. Go to in a web browser and log in to Plex. UPDATE : Added CPU architecture detection (via a PR from GitHub user cobalt2727). Substitute user with the sudo user on your Linode, and 192.0.2.0 with its IP address. Before you can connect to the web interface from your workstation, you will first need to create an SSH tunnel to your Linode.

You will need to find the 64-bit Ubuntu download link on this site (depending on your deployment). Mkdir -p plex-media/movies & mkdir plex-media/televisionĪdministration of the Plex server is performed via its web interface. 1 PREP DOWNLOAD FILE Copy the download link of the latest version from their site here. These will be located within your user’s /home: cd ~/ In this example we’ll create library directories for movies and television within a plex-media directory. Update your system and install Plex: sudo yum updateĮnable Plex Media Server to start on reboot and then start the server: sudo systemctl enable plexmediaserverįinally, you’ll create the directories that will store your Plex media. Now, you can update PHP to the latest available version using the command yum update php. Next, check what versions of PHP are available in the yum repository using the command yum list php. Be sure you install the most recent version of Plex. Check the current version of PHP installed on your system using the command php -v.

The example below uses the current link for CentOS at the time of writing. In the menu that appears, right-click on CentOS 64-bit (RPM for CentOS 7 or newer) and copy the download link.

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