Plex media scanner keeps on crashing on every Linux I have tried on

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See this post, it contains some information regarding the need to set a certain environment variable to be able to run the scanner from the command line:

Deep Analysis not being done

Manually running Plex Media Scanner on Linux requires the PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR environment variable to be set (at least in my experience). By default on Linux (using the native package) it should be set to “/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support.” Something like the following should work: PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR="/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support" /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Scanner --analyze-deeply --force --item…