# Linux install for Plex Connect

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/linux-install-for-plex-connect/36274>\
**Category:** Apps & Creations\
**Created:** [June 14, 2013, 12:44am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/linux-install-for-plex-connect/36274 "2013-06-14T00:44:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![wilsoncd2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce73a5/32.png) [@wilsoncd2](https://forums.plex.tv/u/wilsoncd2)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2013, 4:04pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/linux-install-for-plex-connect/36274/15 "2013-07-05T16:04:03Z")

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> Hey there,
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> I followed the steps to create a service under Ubuntu (located in /etc/init.d/plexconnect). It's possibvle to start PLexConnect via 'sudo service plexconnect start', but that service deosn't get started with the system, so I still have to start it manually… Any solution, or hint on this?

Have you set the service to start automatically ? It is part of the last steps in the post.

sudo chown root:root /etc/init.d/plexconnect  
sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/plexconnect  
sudo update-rc.d plexconnect defaults

These instructions will cause update-rc.d to read the comments at the top of the script (shown below) and setup the daemon appropriately. Do you also have a daemon called plexmediaserver on the server that you are installing plexconnect on? If not remove plexmediaserver from the Required-Start and Required-Stop entries or else the daemon won't start since there is not a running plexmediaserver.

### BEGIN INIT INFO

# Provides: plexconnect  
# Required-Start: plexmediaserver networking  
# Required-Stop: plexmediaserver networking  
# Default-Start: 3 4 5  
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6  
# Short-Description: This is the Plex Connect daemon  
# Description: This script starts the Plex Connect  
# Python scripts in a detached screen.  
### END INIT INFO

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