Is the Plex Debian repo still maintained?

Plex Media Server
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I have recently rebuilt the (Ubuntu 20.04) server where my PMS install lives. I was excited to see that there was a deb repository (as explained here: Enable repository updating for supported Linux server distributions | Plex Support), which would save me a couple of steps when updates occur.

I currently have version 1.25.2.5319 installed, released on Dec 13th according to the announcements forum. For the last week or so I have seen the update icon in the Plex web app, and I see that there have been 2 general availability releases since then, one on Jan 11th, and one on Jan 13th. However, the repo appears to not have been updated for either.

Is the repo still maintained? How long is a typical delay before the releases are placed there?

Thanks!

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The respository currently has 1.25.3.5409.

root@lemming:~# apt install plexmediaserver
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  plexmediaserver
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 76.7 MB of archives.
After this operation, 218 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 https://downloads.plex.tv/repo/deb public/main amd64 plexmediaserver amd64 1.25.3.5409-f11334058 [76.7 MB]
Fetched 76.7 MB in 2s (35.7 MB/s)           
Selecting previously unselected package plexmediaserver.
(Reading database ... 153309 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../plexmediaserver_1.25.3.5409-f11334058_amd64.deb ...
PlexMediaServer install: Pre-installation Validation.
PlexMediaServer install: Pre-installation Validation complete.
Unpacking plexmediaserver (1.25.3.5409-f11334058) ...
Setting up plexmediaserver (1.25.3.5409-f11334058) ...
PlexMediaServer install: PlexMediaServer-1.25.3.5409-f11334058 - Installation starting.
PlexMediaServer install: 
PlexMediaServer install: Now installing based on:
PlexMediaServer install:   Installation Type:   Update
PlexMediaServer install:   Process Control:     systemd
PlexMediaServer install:   Plex User:           chuck
PlexMediaServer install:   Plex Group:          chuck
PlexMediaServer install:   Video Group:         render
PlexMediaServer install:   Metadata Dir:        /home/plex/Library/Application Support
PlexMediaServer install:   Temp Directory:      /tmp 
PlexMediaServer install:   Lang Encoding:       en_US.UTF-8
PlexMediaServer install:   Config file used:    /etc/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service.d/override.conf
PlexMediaServer install:   Intel i915 Hardware: Found
PlexMediaServer install:   Nvidia GPU card:     Not Found
PlexMediaServer install:  
PlexMediaServer install:   OpenCL:              Installed
PlexMediaServer install:   Beignet:             Installed
PlexMediaServer install:  
PlexMediaServer install: Completing final configuration.
PlexMediaServer install: Starting Plex Media Server.
PlexMediaServer install: PlexMediaServer-1.25.3.5409-f11334058 - Installation successful.  Errors: 0, Warnings: 0
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.64ubuntu1) ...
root@lemming:~#
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Huh, I must have added it wrong the first time – weird since I thought I copied and pasted the commands. I checked my sources list and I didn’t have the repo added. (Re?)Adding it and updating got me the newest version, thanks!

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@grumpwagon

The installer writes /etc/apt/sources.list.d/plexmediaserver.list
All you need to do is edit the file and remove the comment from the line
#deb https://downloads.plex.tv/repo/deb/ public main

Next perform standard sudo apt update.

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