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To enable the Plex Media Server repository on Ubuntu only a few terminal commands are required. From a terminal window run the following two commands:
To enable the Plex Media Server repository on Ubuntu only a few terminal commands are required. From a terminal window run the following two commands:


Add the Plex APT repository to your system and import the repository’s GPG key:
First we need to add some NVIDA packages for doing encoding / transcoding etc.


  curl https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-keys/PlexSign.key | sudo apt-key add -
  ubuntu-drivers devices  (will tell you what version to use)
echo deb https://downloads.plex.tv/repo/deb public main | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/plexmediaserver.list
apt install nvidia-headless-535 nvidia-utils-535 libnvidia-encode-535 ocl-icd-libopencl1


Once the repository is enabled, update the apt package list and install the latest server version:
You maybe asked to supply a secure password for secure boot driver enrolment
Make something up, restart the machine and you will have to enter this password through a direct console - one time only.


sudo apt update
Plex DEB can be downloaded from the plex website plex.tv
sudo apt install plexmediaserver
 
To verify that the Plex is running, check the service status:
 
sudo systemctl status plexmediaserver


dpkg -i plexmediaserver_1.40.1.8227-c0dd5a73e_amd64.deb


http://10.3.200.1:32400/web
http://10.3.200.1:32400/web

Revision as of 13:33, 19 March 2024

To enable the Plex Media Server repository on Ubuntu only a few terminal commands are required. From a terminal window run the following two commands:

First we need to add some NVIDA packages for doing encoding / transcoding etc. 

ubuntu-drivers devices  (will tell you what version to use)
apt install nvidia-headless-535 nvidia-utils-535 libnvidia-encode-535 ocl-icd-libopencl1

You maybe asked to supply a secure password for secure boot driver enrolment Make something up, restart the machine and you will have to enter this password through a direct console - one time only.

Plex DEB can be downloaded from the plex website plex.tv 

dpkg -i plexmediaserver_1.40.1.8227-c0dd5a73e_amd64.deb

http://10.3.200.1:32400/web

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