i need hepl updating plex to 1.15…
im running it on open media vault its a deb based system. and yes i tried doing the manual install but it wont pull the package. says conflicting distribution. please help if are running omv or have see this before. thanks in advance
Might want to change your tags at the top to move this to Plex Media Server.
First can you confirm that you are using the OMV Plex Plugin?
The plugin worked up til 1.15, with no one maintaining it you have a couple of options that will take a bit of effort:
1 Fix the plugin (probably not going to happen)
2 Normal Plex install (backup your databases first)
3 Migrate to docker (backup your databases first)
4 Create your own systemd override for Plex
The plugin is basically an override, I can’t pull it down right now to look at it.
To get an idea of what to do have a look here:
Thanks anyway but I got it working. I was going to update the thead I post in with the answer bu chuck closed it. His link gave everything but the last 2 commands needed.
If anyone is following this the answer is is the omv forum.
ChuckPA. If your reading this it would be great if we could edit the post or your link with the missing information. It took me 3hrs to find it and I would love to save someone the pain I went through.
Thanks and have a good day.
Go to plex.tv/media-server-downloads/#plex-media-server and select platform from the ‘Choose distribution’ dropdown. I picked ‘Ubuntu (16.04+) / Debian (8+) - Intel/AMD 64-bit’ for an Intel CPU and copyed the link to the .deb file.
3. Connect to OMV box via ssh (Putty or similar from Windows)
4. Download the .deb file to a temporary folder on the NAS:
cd /temp; wget https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-media-server-new/1.15.2.793-782228f99/debian/plexmediaserver_1.15.2.793-782228f99_amd64.deb
5. Update the package:
sudo apt install ./plexmediaserver_1.15.2.793-782228f99_amd64.deb
6. Remove the file:
rm plexmediaserver_1.15.2.793-782228f99_amd64.deb
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This works. I hope it helps. Someone.
Please clarify which item and where in a particular tip needs updating?
it’s lines 5and 6 in This thread. It’s the actual install and remove command. I was under the assumption that just adding the link via wget and a sudo update and upgrade was it. Didn’t know it was a reinstall of plex that was needed. I hope my other thead can help someone. I’m sorry but I’m on a learning curve with Linux as a lot of us are.
You are using OMV as well ? This doesn’t help matters.
Please confirm the distro. I have tried to setup OMV before but never made it work right
Yes I’m using omv 4.$&. Plex was installed with the plugin some time ago. Although I’ve read it’s no longer being maintained. Does this mean that every plex update will be installed the way I just did? As for the distro it’s not bad. When I finally decide to build a new box I might switch distros. As far as the install I did last night I was fairly easy. I just didn’t know to run the install command. After the command was ran plex was updated and running with in 3 minutes. I know I should not ask (because it’s a can of worms ) but what distro should I choose next time. I’m thinking freenas or unraid.
The OMV install forces you to have an OS drive and data drive. Since most install guides say to use a USB drive for the OS you end up with the Plex Plugin to move the install to your data drive rather than kill your USB from frequent updates. There are other ways to accomplish the same thing or just ignore the plugin and install to the OS drive.
As long as the repository for Plex is correct, then it should update to the latest Public version when it is reopened.
I converted my old gaming rig. So I got a 250g ssd as my os drive and 4 4tb as data drives running in a zfs pool seen as one drive. It’s one of the good things about omv.
Thanks, these instructions are just what I needed! The upgrade works!
A small tip for other OMV users: Don’t panic if Plex doesn’t run immediately after the update. You may need to reboot OMV first.
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Yeah, this was a great help. Thanks to everyone who contributed
I’m trying to update Plex on my NAS but it does not work and I don’t know what to do.
root@helios4:~# sudo apt install plexmediaserver
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
plexmediaserver
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/71.4 MB of archives.
After this operation, 185 MB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database … 48291 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack …/plexmediaserver_1.18.8.2527-740d4c206_armhf.deb …
PlexMediaServer install: Pre-installation Validation.
PlexMediaServer install: Pre-installation Validation complete.
Unpacking plexmediaserver (1.18.8.2527-740d4c206) …
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/plexmediaserver_1.18.8.2527-740d4c206_armhf.deb (–unpack):
trying to overwrite ‘/usr/sbin/start_pms’, which is also in package plexmediaserver-installer 1.12.1.4885-1046ba85f-1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/plexmediaserver_1.18.8.2527-740d4c206_armhf.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@helios4:~#
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