Trying to install the server on to my presh plexx box but after i’ve added the repository and i try to install plexmediaserver, the key installation fails.
is the repo not compatible with CentOS 9? or is there something i can do to make it work?
Use podman with the docker image.
its basically running on a NUC, so i dont want to over complicate by using virtualisation, also not having to manually do updates.
The Plex docker image automatically updates itself when you restart the container.
i think i’ll just reinstall an earlier version of centos. it was running on centos 8 just fine iirc
Yea well, here’s the one line command to get you up and running in less than a minute:
podman run \
-d \
--name CONTAINERNAME \
-p IP.OF.PLEX.SERVER:32400:32400/tcp \
-e TZ="America/New_York" \
-e ADVERTISE_IP="https://IP.OF.PLEX.SERVER:32400 \
-e PLEX_UID=1001 \
-e PLEX_GID=1001 \
-h HOSTNAME \
-v /PATH/TO/PLEX/CONFIGURATION:/config:z \
-v /storage/sr1/files:/storage/sr1/files \
-v /storage/sr2/files:/storage/sr2/files \
plexinc/pms-docker:beta
If just does this
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The command starts with:
podman run \not -d. -
You have to substitute “CONTAINERNAME”, “IP.OF.PLEX.SERVER”, “HOSTNAME”, and “/PATH/TO/PLEX/CONFIGURATION” with your own information. Change the last two -v directives to your media locations. If you don’t have two locations then omit one.
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Also need podman installed most likely which is done by sudo yum install podman
if the VM is in a container, will i beable to mount USB drives to it?
You can pass through a device such as a USB drive either like “–device=/dev/YOURUSBDEVICE” or if the drive is already mounted to a directory you can pass the directory through with a -v directive as shown in the command already.
I’ve worked out its because sha1 has een dropped in centos 9.
ooking for a way to install it
are plex planning to upgrade their key to use sha256
Do i make the IP the host server’s IP or is this going to make it appear that the container is a seperate machine?
IP.OF.PLEX.SERVER is the IP of the host machine.
PATH/TO/PLEX/CONFIGURATION should be set to something like /var/lib/plexmediaserver if that’s where the data directory is located for you.
HOSTNAME is the name you give your Plex server.
CONTAINERNAME can be anything and is used to start/stop the container.
i assume this means i need a pre-written config file?
You can use your existing configuration. Just point it to the current location. You don’t need to change :/config:z. eg: -v /var/lib/plexmediaserver:/config:z \
Starting Plex Media Server.
/bin/mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/config/Library/Application Support’: Permission denied
chown: cannot access ‘/config/Library/Application Support’: No such file or directory
PMS: failure detected. Read/write access is required for path: /config/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server
Stopping Plex Media Server.
what ddo i have to do for permissions?
i just worked it out i think
The directory needs to be owned by the user that has ID 1001 otherwise you can change UID and GID to your current user. Prolly ID 1000.
I have a specific user account for Plex that has ID 1001 on my server.
but i ran a chmod 777 -R /drives/NVME
shouldnt it e full access to anyone?
