Continuing the discussion from Why the delay in the Debian/Ubuntu repository?:
Any update? It’s still annoying having to manually grab the update link buried in the downloads page then pasting it into bash curl. This is really getting old especially with the recent flurry of new features and fixes.
Alternatively, make the update url easy to scrape or use ftp.
There is a script by mrworf that many have been using for years to do what you want.
No, what I want is to use APT’s elegant handling of updates as part of my daily maintenance instead of a third-party script which becomes yet another thing to update and troubleshoot.
apt-get update & apt-get upgrade will install the current Public version if upgrade is needed.The repositories are set to Public-only because PlexPass is Beta software and should not be blindly distributed to everyone.
For what it’s worth, I used that script for years and never had any problems with it.
As for your insistence on using the repos, find more patience. That script, and others like it, have been around for at least six years because some folks can’t or won’t wait for the repos to catch up to the web DLs.
Will Plex get faster at populating their repos? Maybe. Will inpatient users who still think they are too slow at it keep coming? Absolutely.
If you want an easy to use tool to scrape for the update URL, look inside that script, find the code and borrow it.
As for me, I moved on to docker years ago. Plex tells me when an update is available, all I do is restart the container to get it, but if I was really lazy I would put that step on a daily cron job that runs in the wee hours. In a word: trivial.
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