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9 minutes ago, Corrupt_Liberty said:

The name of the file should specifically say 32 or 64 bit along with the revision number.  You might want to go to the website and download it directly.  

as an idiot check, the command would be  

wget <url>

correct?

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2 minutes ago, whiteGloveReview said:

as an idiot check, the command would be  


wget <url>

correct?

yes.

 

1 minute ago, whiteGloveReview said:

not an option rn. i'm doing a fresh install at the moment.

There's not much you can do when you are not prepared to do it.

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1 minute ago, Corrupt_Liberty said:

copy that

Should be wget https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-media-server/1.4.3.3433-03e4cfa35/plexmediaserver_1.4.3.3433-03e4cfa35_i386.deb

@whiteGloveReview You can use this method, but remember that you will not be able to update the package to the latest version through apt.

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Just now, Corrupt_Liberty said:

copy that

Should be wget https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-media-server/1.4.3.3433-03e4cfa35/plexmediaserver_1.4.3.3433-03e4cfa35_i386.deb

can do, I'll plug that into putty when it's set up. installing ssh to it now, I think i'm looking at a reboot after it installs it then i'll ssh in, and call it good. hopefully.

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Just now, tt2468 said:

@whiteGloveReview You can use this method, but remember that you will not be able to update the package to the latest version through apt.

fair point, but I can always go into the sources.list file and add the file directory in can't I?

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2 minutes ago, tt2468 said:

@whiteGloveReview You can use this method, but remember that you will not be able to update the package to the latest version through apt.

I've never had a problem manually updating when I need to.  I actually like this better because I can watch the forums for problems before I decide to install the new update.

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Just now, Corrupt_Liberty said:

I've never had a problem manually updating when I need to.  I actually like this better because I can watch the forums for problems before I decide to install the new update.

trick is, just keeping an eye on the updates so I know when it needs it.

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Just now, whiteGloveReview said:

well that makes life easy.

I do like it easy.  I get an alert.  Check the forum for issues after a couple days.  SSH in, download and install the new update just like you install it now.  No repositories to worry about and the file comes straight from PLEX.  I like to stop the service before I run the update.  I don't think it's required though.

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Just now, Corrupt_Liberty said:

I do like it easy.  I get an alert.  Check the forum for issues after a couple days.  SSH in, download and install the new update just like you install it now.  No repositories to worry about and the file comes straight from PLEX.  I like to stop the service before I run the update.  I don't think it's required though.

well here's hoping that this'll work. i've been floundering about on this for a couple days now and it's starting to get old.

 

so to be clear, what you have to do is 

wget <url>
dpkg -i <filename>

make sure it's working then log on to the webpage and configure.

 

right?

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14 minutes ago, whiteGloveReview said:

well here's hoping that this'll work. i've been floundering about on this for a couple days now and it's starting to get old.

 

so to be clear, what you have to do is 


wget <url>
dpkg -i <filename>

make sure it's working then log on to the webpage and configure.

 

right?

yes.  And you can check it with sudo service plexmediaserver status

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3 minutes ago, Corrupt_Liberty said:

yes.  And you can check it with sudo service plexmediaserver status

did it, checked it, same results as before. what am I doing wrong here? 

lynn@mail:/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library$ sudo service plexmediaserver status
● plexmediaserver.service - Plex Media Server for Linux
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2017-03-13 19:09:48 EDT; 1s ago
  Process: 2450 ExecStart=/bin/sh -c /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex\ Media\ Server (code=exited, status=127)
  Process: 2444 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c /usr/bin/test -d "${PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR}" || /bin/mkdir -p "${PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR}"
 Main PID: 2450 (code=exited, status=127)

Mar 13 19:09:48 mail systemd[1]: Starting Plex Media Server for Linux...
Mar 13 19:09:48 mail systemd[1]: Started Plex Media Server for Linux.
Mar 13 19:09:48 mail sh[2450]: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server: error while loading shared libraries: libboost_atomic.so.1.59.0: cannot open shared object fi
Mar 13 19:09:48 mail systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=127/n/a
Mar 13 19:09:48 mail systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Unit entered failed state.
Mar 13 19:09:48 mail systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

here's the "crash report"(?)

 

here's the file (i think) it's complaining about  

[Unit]
Description=Plex Media Server for Linux
After=network.target

[Service]
Environment="PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR=/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support"
Environment=PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_HOME=/var/lib/plexmediaserver
Environment=PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_MAX_PLUGIN_PROCS=6
Environment=PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_TMPDIR=/tmp
Environment=LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/var/lib/plexmediaserver
Environment=LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
Environment=LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/test -d "${PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR}" || /bin/mkdir -p "${PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR}"'
ExecStart=/bin/sh -c '/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex\ Media\ Server'
Type=simple
User=plex
Group=plex

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

 

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5 hours ago, Corrupt_Liberty said:

https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200288596-Linux-Permissions-Guide

 

I'll try to help more when I'm home from class. You have permission issues though. 

a thought occured to me, couldn't I fix these permission problems by telling plex to run as root or at least as a user with root access?

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7 hours ago, whiteGloveReview said:

 

a thought occured to me, couldn't I fix these permission problems by telling plex to run as root or at least as a user with root access?

That's not a good idea.  You need to add Plex as a system user and give plex permissions over /usr/lib/plexmediaserver and whatever directory you're storing your media in.  

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29 minutes ago, Corrupt_Liberty said:

That's not a good idea.  You need to add Plex as a system user and give plex permissions over /usr/lib/plexmediaserver and whatever directory you're storing your media in.   

lynn@mail:~$ cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd
root
daemon
bin
sys
sync
games
man
lp
mail
news
uucp
proxy
www-data
backup
list
irc
gnats
nobody
systemd-timesync
systemd-network
systemd-resolve
systemd-bus-proxy
syslog
_apt
lxd
messagebus
uuidd
dnsmasq
sshd
lynn
plex

plex is a system user correct?

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