Hi. Can you install Plex Media Server on a Fedora 39 server? If so, how?
I’ve never installed PMS on Fedora myself but it looks like it’s officially supported.
Yes, it works very well. Just install like any other rpm package sudo dnf install plexmediaserver-1.40.2.8312-b1c79904d.x86_64.rpm and follow the plex configuration like on any other OS using a browser.
Doesn’t work. Tried updating to the version I downloaded. ‘plexmediaserver-1.40.2.8395-c67dce28e.x86_64.rpm’. That didn’t work either. I’m guessing I need to add a repo.
Yep, you forgot to mention this…
[Enable repository updating for supported Linux server distributions]
(https://support.plex.tv/articles/235974187-enable-repository-updating-for-supported-linux-server-distributions/)
You don’t need to enable the repository if you install the rpm directly sudo dnf install plexmediaserver-1.40.2.8312-b1c79904d.x86_64.rpm like I mentioned above. I’ve never enabled the plex repository and always install plex manually.
You can of course enable it if you want but its not required.
The repo definition file (/etc/yum.repos.d/plex.repo) is included in the package with PMS.
[chuck@lizum yum.repos.d.2021]$ cat plex.repo
[PlexRepo]
name=PlexRepo
baseurl=https://downloads.plex.tv/repo/rpm/$basearch/
enabled=0
gpgkey=https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-keys/PlexSign.key
gpgcheck=1
[chuck@lizum yum.repos.d.2022]$
You do have to enable it
Right, but you don’t NEED to, that’s the point I was making 
If you want to update plex manually then you can just keep downloading the rpm each time a new version comes out and update it manually via dnf.
If the file already exists, and is enabled, rpm won’t forcibly reset it.
If it doesn’t exist, then it will install a not-enabled one.
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