Plex Media Player packages for Linux

@Knapsu said:
@ikariwths you should check you power management/screen settings as probably the screen lock is starting because of mouse/keyboard inactivity.

everthing is disabled,this is not happening neither with any other player nor with the plex web player

Hey @ChuckPA ! Long time no talk :smile:

I agree with you. This is a strange one. Nothing comes to my mind at the moment.

@Knapsu

Agreed! Been busy like you. I’ll spin it up in gdb if it’s of help to you but the SSL output and LD_LIBRARY_PATH-like errors sounded more like something funky in in that build??

@Knapsu

Hey I’m really glad I found your builds but I’m a little confused on the versions.

On your site you list three 1.x versions for download that you recommend for people who don’t like the new UI, I don’t like it personally cause it has one major mouse bug that the devs are ignoring but I don’t understand why you suggest people use those if they don’t like the new UI when those appimages also have the new UI.

Has anyone experiencing flickering in PMP? It does not happen in the browser Web App.
Moving from Settings to Home or Back.
Moving into a title.
Moving from title to Library or Back.
No flickering moving between libraries.

OpenSUSE Leap 42.3
NVIDIA GTX 1080 (Driver 381.111)

Experienced this with
Plex-2.1.1.703-79cdfa5c
Plex-2.4.1-787-54a020cd

Can I run these packages outside KDE (like Open PHT and Kodi, “standalone”?)

Hi,
I am running 16.04 as my desktop.
I downloaded the Appimage, I open it from my downloads folder.
30 secs later I get an error!

If I select “yes” to choose an application to run the file Ubuntu gives me an automatic option of:
pypar2

Is this app required for appimage to work, your site suggests I shouldn’t need anything???

Fantastic work! Can’t understand Plex programmers problem with creating a Linux player, but you’ve done an outstanding job and I especially like your universal approach using AppImage. I’m using:

RELEASE=18.3
CODENAME=sylvia
EDITION=“Cinnamon 64-bit”
DESCRIPTION=“Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia”
DESKTOP=Gnome
TOOLKIT=GTK
NEW_FEATURES_URL=http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_sylvia_cinnamon_whatsnew.php
RELEASE_NOTES_URL=http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_sylvia_cinnamon.php
USER_GUIDE_URL=help:linuxmint
GRUB_TITLE=Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon 64-bit

Works flawlessly! Plex stuttered and failed often just using the Chrome browser. Still waiting for someone to add optional VLC support (like Emby does) to the server. VLC just works.

@qwikag

did you fail to make the appimage executable, this error is often associated with not setting the executable

(you can do this by opening the folder and right clicking the appimage file, then click on the permission tab, and finally checking the box for (allow executing file as a program))

Hey @“Potato Bob”. Plex did some weird stuff with versioning when publishing their new UI. I was not aware that they also pushed the new UI from v2.x to v1.x branch. Only the v1.x releases were available for download from https://www.plex.tv/downloads/

Just checked and it appears their download page was updated and points to version 2.5.0.792-1bc7f225 which was released few days ago.

Because of this and your findings, I’m taking down links to v1.x as they are not needed anymore.

@TonioRoffo of course you can.

@ElmerFuddIII Thanks!

Thanks for the work on this. Any chance you can supply a 32 bit build?

@kwolf22 Plex Media Player supports only 64-bit processors.

Does anyone know what terminal name you would use to launch PMP? I locked PMP to launcher, but would like to use a keyboard shortcut to open it. If I left it in the same spot on the launcher, I could just use SUPER 7, for example, but I don’t want to be confined to PMP being in the 7th slot on launcher if this makes sense. Thanks

@DJViking said:
Thanks to @Knapsu my problem was solved.
Running /usr/sbin/update-ca-certificates from package ca-certificates created the certificate file necessary for starting PMP.
Running on OpenSUSE Leap 42.3

I have a fresh installed openSUSE Leap 42.3 - having the same issue with “Failed to locate CA bundle.” error. Running “/usr/sbin/update-ca-certificates” as root hasn’t resolved the issue.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Kim

@kimfr said:

@DJViking said:
Thanks to @Knapsu my problem was solved.
Running /usr/sbin/update-ca-certificates from package ca-certificates created the certificate file necessary for starting PMP.
Running on OpenSUSE Leap 42.3

I have a fresh installed openSUSE Leap 42.3 - having the same issue with “Failed to locate CA bundle.” error. Running “/usr/sbin/update-ca-certificates” as root hasn’t resolved the issue.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Kim

Do you have any of the following files on your system?
“/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt”
“/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt”
“/usr/share/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt”
“/usr/local/share/certs/ca-root-nss.crt”
“/etc/ssl/cert.pem”
“/usr/share/curl/curl-ca-bundle.crt”
“/usr/local/share/curl/curl-ca-bundle.crt”

I got the first one of those after running update-ca-certificates.

@DJViking said:

Do you have any of the following files on your system?
“/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt”
“/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt”
“/usr/share/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt”
“/usr/local/share/certs/ca-root-nss.crt”
“/etc/ssl/cert.pem”
“/usr/share/curl/curl-ca-bundle.crt”
“/usr/local/share/curl/curl-ca-bundle.crt”

I got the first one of those after running update-ca-certificates.

Even after running update-ca-certificates, I still don’t have any of the above files

linux-utie:~ # update-ca-certificates -f -v
running /usr/lib/ca-certificates/update.d/50java.run 

creating /var/lib/ca-certificates/java-cacerts 

running /usr/lib/ca-certificates/update.d/70openssl.run 

creating /var/lib/ca-certificates/openssl 

running /usr/lib/ca-certificates/update.d/80etc_ssl.run 

running /usr/lib/ca-certificates/update.d/99certbundle.run 

creating /var/lib/ca-certificates/ca-bundle.pem 


I also don’t think that I’m missing any packages
linux-utie:~ # zypper se certificate
Loading repository data

Reading installed packages


S | Name | Summary | Type
—±-------------------------±------------------------------------------------------------------------------±----------
i | ca-certificates | Utilities for system wide CA certificate installation | package
i+ | ca-certificates-cacert | CAcert root certificates | package
i | ca-certificates-mozilla | CA certificates for OpenSSL | package
| ca-certificates-mozilla | CA certificates for OpenSSL | srcpackage
| check-create-certificate | A non-interactive script that creates an SSL certificate if it does not exist | package

@DJViking

Problem solved by creating a symbolic link in /etc/ssl:
sudo ln -s /var/lib/ca-certificates/ca-bundle.pem /etc/ssl/cert.pem

@Knapsu
There is one minor issue - when starting the first time nothing happens when I click on the “sign in” button, the commandline shows:
kde-open5: /tmp/.mount_Plex_MMdnJKX/usr/lib/libQt5Widgets.so.5: version Qt_5.6.2_PRIVATE_API' not found (required by /usr/lib64/libQt5Svg.so.5) kde-open5: /tmp/.mount_Plex_MMdnJKX/usr/lib/libQt5Gui.so.5: version Qt_5.6.2_PRIVATE_API’ not found (required by /usr/lib64/libQt5Svg.so.5)
kde-open5: /tmp/.mount_Plex_MMdnJKX/usr/lib/libQt5Core.so.5: version `Qt_5.6.2_PRIVATE_API’ not found (required by /usr/lib64/libQt5Svg.so.5)

If I switch to “TV full Screen” and press “Sign In” - I’m presented with a Link Code - once linked things are working - even Live TV :smiley:

Is it normal that when in TV Full Screen mode there is a different UI layout then when running in a Windows?

Thanks
Kim

@plex-linux said:

did you fail to make the appimage executable, this error is often associated with not setting the executable

(you can do this by opening the folder and right clicking the appimage file, then click on the permission tab, and finally checking the box for (allow executing file as a program))

Thanks, That was exactly it!
I was checking the permissions and could not see the checkbox, normally executable is in each access level user group and others, so I was looking in the picklists.