Pop OS PMS support?

Plex Media Server Desktops & Laptops
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Hey everyone! I’m currently building a new gaming desktop and planned on going with Pop OS 19.10 which is based on Ubuntu and can be found here as a reference: https://system76.com/pop

I did a search in the forums to see if anyone had any issues running PMS on this OS before I made up my mind on what OS to go to. I only found 2 threads that mention this OS at all on this forum. Does anyone see any issues I may run into running PMS on this OS?

Thanks!

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If there were any issues, you’d have found them in your search
Be advised, It’s a proprietary distro created by a hardware manufacturer using Ubuntu as the base.

That having been said, there is no way of knowing if it will work or not.
Since it’s not an officially support distribution, there is no support for it…
If it works, great. If not, oh well.

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I run PMS on a Pop OS 19.10 install with no issues. Everything functions as expected, including hardware accelerated transcoding.

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Thanks a lot guys! Very good to hear you’re running it without issue. My next adventure will going from Windows 7 PMS with all of my media on an external drive to Pop OS. I’m reading as much as I can and doesn’t seem to be the easiest task. Wish me luck!

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Heads up.

If you are going to move Windows to Linux,

  1. Clean out all under Plug-in Support/Caches and Plug-in Support/Data without deleting the data.
  2. This will keep windows CR/LF from messing up Linux.
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Thanks for the tip. What do you mean by clean out? Just backup the files within them without moving them to Linux?

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To clean out == Delete

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If you haven’t seen this support article you may want to give it a read:
https://support.plex.tv/articles/201370363-move-an-install-to-another-system/

It shows where to find the Plex data folder on the various supported systems and a procedure for migrating things. The only thing which you won’t be able to directly migrate are your server settings; they’re stored in the Registry on Windows and in an XML file on Linux.

When you’re reconfiguring your libraries on Linux, leave the old folder paths in-place until the new folders are added and scanned. Once all your media shows up with duplicates you can go in and remove the old paths. In that way you can keep your view stats and such. And just to be sure nothing funny happens, make sure the following setting is disabled on the Windows PMS install before migrating:

Settings → Library → Empty trash automatically after every scan

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I specifically mean:

sudo sh
cd "/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-in Support"
rm -rf Caches/*
rm -rf Data/*

Windows uses CR/LF as the EOL character.
Linux uses LF as the EOL character.
This results in CR creeping into the query strings and making them invalid.

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hi, I just moved to pop os 19.10 from win 10 and my pms isn’t able to find any folders in my external drives now. Any ideas?

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I’m stuck at step D. My command prompt is telling me

(org.gnome.gedit:5671): Gtk-WARNING **: 15:00:33.800: Calling org.freedesktop.portal.Inhibit.Inhibit failed: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such interface “org.freedesktop.portal.Inhibit” on object at path /org/freedesktop/portal/desktop

** (org.gnome.gedit:5671): WARNING **: 15:01:57.621: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-spell-language not supported

** (org.gnome.gedit:5671): WARNING **: 15:01:57.622: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-encoding not supported

and when I try to use VI it opens within the command prompt and won’t let me edit anything.

edit I installed emacs and it worked

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