Plex media server problem?

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colin_b
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Plex media server problem?

#1 Post by colin_b »

A Distro Watch review:
For being Debian-based, it should be child's play to install Plex media server and have it work ootb. However, this is not the case with MX 17; and even after avahi-utils, the daemon still could not be found. Now, either I missed something *really* obvious, or the distro needs work in this respect; and because of this, I've rated it 6/10.
Is this a problem, or have they simply not tried the package manager?

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Jerry3904
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Re: Plex media server problem?

#2 Post by Jerry3904 »

Devs already on it...
Production: 5.10, MX-23 Xfce, AMD FX-4130 Quad-Core, GeForce GT 630/PCIe/SSE2, 16 GB, SSD 120 GB, Data 1TB
Personal: Lenovo X1 Carbon with MX-23 Fluxbox and Windows 10
Other: Raspberry Pi 5 with MX-23 Xfce Raspberry Pi Respin

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dolphin_oracle
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Re: Plex media server problem?

#3 Post by dolphin_oracle »

the problem is that plex does not supply a sysV init script for the server. if you boot systemd, like main debian, yeah, its easy.

they still package ubuntu "upstart" scripts, but they are wrong...

you have to be careful not to start plex with root privledges, because that would be bad.
http://www.youtube.com/runwiththedolphin
lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 4 - MX-23
FYI: mx "test" repo is not the same thing as debian testing repo.

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