Cannot seem to install Plex-media-server on Devuan. The debian version does not seem to work.
Is there a generic Linux version of Plex?
Is the system configured for systemd or init ?
When developing the new installer, Devuan was one of the development testing platforms. It will and does work on Devuan.
What does the contents of /tmp/plexinstaller.log show please?
My system is configured for init.
The /tmp/plexinstaller.log is empty
Empty or non-existent?
Pass or fail, it is written upon completion.
would you mind attempting again and showing me the console session output?
As a test, I installed a fresh Devuan 3.0
- Do not use OpenRC (which uses init scripts but is not SYSVINIT standard)
- Installed 1.19.2 and then current PlexPass 1.20.1, which is the same package scripting it has been now for several months.
Results are:
Here, you can see what /tmp/plexinstaller.log reports.
Which version do you have?
Using the find command, I just found and removed every plexmediaserver file or directory on my system.
Can you point me to a complete procedure for installing plexmediaserver on a Devuan system?
Could this be an opportunity for Docker?
Docker is not necessary; it would be overkill. Devuan with SYSV-init is supported natively..
Resetting my Devuan system to “Fresh Install” state.
The entire sequence is shown in this screenshot.
Once installed, it is clear Plex is running natively on the host.
For some reason the dpkg install did not work before.
But I tried this, and it seems to work.
Seems? It will work or it won’t.
As for the “XML” page, I see you did what we all often do 
, the /web on the URL is necessary to invoke the Plex/Web client. (thinking “Plex/web” helps me to remember the “/web” part)
I try not to assume everything is good, just because things are working at the moment.
I think it’s save to say, it is working.
Although, older versions of plex-media-server seemed to work better. The older versions streamed more smoothly, and had a better interface.
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