Help: double plex media server installation issue

[Djeunut]

So somehow I accidentally installed plex media server twice on my Linux pc (as you can see in the screenshot, don't mind the third one this is my old server) so only one of them is able to run.
Every time that i restart the pc it starts one of the two installations but it's pretty much random.

Right now the correct installation is running but I have no clue how I can find where the second one is installed so I can remove it.

 

Thanks in advance

[Voronko]

Their support page says it should be somewhere here : /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/ . See if there is a single installation in that path.

Also, might be more hustle but try removing everything and doing a clean install ( dpkg -r plexmediaserver )

Also also, just look at what you have in startup apps, maybe there are two instances and youll also see the path for the second one.

Edited December 15, 2021 by Voronko
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[Djeunut]

17 minutes ago, Voronko said:

Their support page says it should be somewhere here : /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/ . See if there is a single installation in that path.

Also, might be more hustle but try removing everything and doing a clean install ( dpkg -r plexmediaserver )

Also also, just look at what you have in startup apps, maybe there are two instances and youll also see the path for the second one.

As far as I can tell there is just one installation in that directory.
I could try to remove everything but I'm afraid that it'll break my server again since one of the two can't properly find my movies but the one that's running now does find them.

Neither of the installations are in startup apps but it they do launch on system startup.

 

Thanks for your help

[Voronko]

Hmmm... maybe its hiding either in crontab or rc.local? You can check if those are empty too.

P.S. (I think there might be a case that you dont have rc.local folder at all if its empty. I also dont write very specific instructions as im not that familiar with linux myself  ...)

[Djeunut]

I can't find either of to locations you gave me : /

I did install one of them with ubuntu software and one with terminal I think but since this is my first time actually using linux i'm not that good at finding my way in all the files.