Currently I am updating Plex Server manually. I notice a new version, download it from the Website onto my Windows 10 machine, copy it over from Windows to my Ubuntu headless server, ssh into the server, install.
I did some searching on Google and came up with github.com/mrworf/plexupdate as a way to automate the installation when new versions are available.
Is there any better known way to auto-update Plex Server? Why doesn’t Plex use apt-get’s infrastructure to automate the process?
Anyone use plexupdate? Does it work well for you?
The script you referenced is a great tool used by a lot of Plex users.
I’d recommend using that
I forgot about this earlier…
There is now a Plex REPO!
For users running our Plex Media Server on CentOS/Fedora or Ubuntu Linux distributions, it's possible to do so via our official repository. This article covers how to add the repository to CentOS/Fedora and Ubuntu
Wonderful, I hadn’t found that in my searches, so thanks for posting the link!
With both available, which do you prefer? The plexupdater from github does have the advantage of checking to make sure Plex isn’t in use before it updates. On the other hand apt-get is fairly standard and works well.
The repo gets you the current public version, right? Not the Plex Pass version?
@beckfield said:
The repo gets you the current public version, right? Not the Plex Pass version?
That’s true, currently only the Public release
Ah, so I’ll probably go with plexupdater then both for the upgrade check built in and the ability to install the Plex Pass version.
Other great plugin , PlexPy for see what your user do (is watching)on your plex library
