Server Version#: 1.24.5.5173
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Having recently (and successfully) migrated my PMS from Windows 10 to (headless) Ubuntu 20.04, I have a question. Previously on Windows, I could open the PMS web interface (from any computer in my house), and trigger PMS to update itself to a new version. Now on Linux, it feels like the PMS can no longer update itself, as I’m forced to dowload the *.deb file, re-upload it to my Linux server, and apply the update via dnf. Is that expected behaviour ?
Upgrading via the plex gui won’t work (iirc) but you do not have to install the .deb manually.
It will upgrade when you upgrade your system via apt or you can install the unattended-upgrades package which will upgrade your system for you.
I have a followup to this. Sometimes, my Linux PMS updates don’t update through apt and I have to do them manually. Why is that? Are there certain updates for which this is true? Am I just impatient, and need to give it a few days to filter through the process?
Thanks,
Mike
If you have the repo enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list.d then whenever apt update runs, it will check the Public release against what you have installed.
If there is an update, apt upgrade will grab it.
Some folks run update and upgrade via shell scripts/crontab while some do manually.
Yep. That’s how it usually works for me, but once in a while, apt update and upgrade don’t hit plex. It hasn’t happened for a while, but this most recent upgrade was one. Plex flagged it a few days ago. Maybe a week? But Upgrading didn’t help. I must have had something set weird. I reenabled the repo and got two updates, public 1.25.4.5487-648a8f9f9 and public 1.25.4.5468-989df2310. Anyways, working fine after that. Thanks.
Sometimes the plex .deb repo is a bit late and you can download it manually already but it has not hit the repository yet. That has not happened (to me) in a while though.
