PMS 1.15.0.659 no longer supports Ubuntu 14 04 Server?

[razvan.constantin]

At the moment I am running PMS 1.14.1.5488.
Went to check the latest beta and saw the version 1.15.0.659 only has downloads for Ubuntu 16.04 and up.
Search gave me nothing.
Any clue if 1.15.0.659 can be installed on Ubuntu 14.04 Server without crashing or loosing data?

Thank you.

[pl_5309]

It will not.

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[ChuckPa]

If I may augment here,

Ubuntu 14 has been held as supported longer than any other Linux distro.
The change was not made lightly.

Be advised, as published by Canonical

Current Version    Code name    End of  Life date
Ubuntu  16.04.1 LTS    Xenial Xerus    April 2021
Ubuntu  16.04 LTS    Xenial Xerus    April 2021
Ubuntu  14.04.5 LTS    Trusty Tahr    April 2019
Ubuntu  14.04.4 LTS    Trusty Tahr    HWE August 2016

It is on the border and really is time to upgrade

[cineboxit]

Dear ChuckPA,

So will it be supported by Ubuntu 14.04?

Best regards.

[Ryushin]

Could try installing the libc6 from 16.04 in 14.04.

I wrote directions for Debian Wheezy users. You could adapt them for Ubuntu:

Devuan/Debian/Ubuntu plexmediaserver packages with sysvinit support (fan edit)

Plex 1.15 and above is going to need glibc 2.14.1. Debian Wheezy is 2.13 Your options for minimum compatibility is to upgrade to Debian/Devuan Jessie or try and upgrade just your libc6 packages from Jessie. I spun up a wheezy VM to provide the steps to upgrade libc6 (glibc) from Devuan Jessie. Before you do this, make sure you have backups. I only tested this on a VM. Plex Media Server was able to start once I upgraded. Instructions to add Jessie sources and upgrade libc6: Add the Devuan Je…

[ChuckPa]

glibc will be the hurdle. Version 2.14.1 must be installed and recognized as the default. Without this, nothing will work.

As for proper SYSV init scripts, I am finishing this work now.