Hey there, I was trying to get plex-desktop installed on a fresh install of Arch Linux and noticed that the .deb package that the AUR package (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/plex-desktop) depends on is no longer provided by Plex? In fact, it seems that the entire https://artifacts.plex.tv page is down. There are inherent disadvantages and issues with both Snap and Flatpak compared to managing Plex with pacman/an AUR helper, so is it possible we could get that packaging back?
They are moving the backend systems to new.
Some of the libraries are in the plex-desktop are deprecated and not working on Arch but you sound like you will be able to work around that till they get around to re-writing the app.
Plex has never distributed the desktop apps in anything other than a snap or flatpak. So regardless of where you previously got a deb from, it isn’t Plex.
I appreciate the reply but that’s simply not true. There was in fact a download for a .deb and .tar.bz2 for plex-desktop on the normal downloads page. It linked to https://artifacts.plex.tv/plex-desktop-stable/version/platform/, where the file was hosted.
https://artifacts.plex.tv/plex-desktop-stable/1.112.0.359-0d79a49f/linux/Plex-1.112.0.359-0d79a49f-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 Is the link for the most recent artifact that worked, which is what the AUR package plex-desktop (community maintained, unofficial) used.
Its worth mentioning that a fair headache could be saved by just properly packaging and maintaining an AUR package, but being on FOSS dev teams myself, will not ask for that to be done unless already feasible.
Good to hear that it’s hopefully temporary. I hate to be a bother but would you happen to be able to link me to if a Plex staff member said something like that? I can’t find it searching around, and I’d like to update the maintainer of the AUR package if possible.
It is true. You were speaking to the previous maintainer of these apps, before they were let go. Whatever back door you found was not an official distribution.
I started to ask to which part and then thought better of it.
Plex has a firm policy of not posting until the work is finished, mainly because every time they try to communicate the person gets ripped to shreds or hounded with repeated questions because people don’t want to go back and read from the top. While you may not undertake such behavior there is nothing to prevent someone passing by this thread from doing so. If this discounts the validity of my response then so be it.
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