I am new to Linux and used a simple script provided by Plex to install PMS on Ubuntu 24.04.3. The script set it up to automatically update itself via repository. Now I want to use the newest beta to try out a new feature it has, but am unsure how to manually install it after I download it from the Plex website. If I could set it up to continue auto updating in the future that would be ideal. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
The linux repositories only handle the Public release of Plex Media Server. To the best of my knowledge there isn’t a “Script”.
Do you know the name of this script? If it is something like PlexUpdate.sh then that was written by a user and does have flags for downloading and installing the betas.
I will emphasize the “BETA” part of the release. If you are not tech savvy and comfortable troubleshooting problems, gathering logs and reporting issues then it might be worth waiting for others to shake out the bugs before it hits public release.
On the topic of IPv6, given all the different ISP’s implementation of IPV6 I don’t expect this to be 100%. By limiting it to only beta, Plex will have time to gather edge cases and refine the process.
Throwing caution to the wind the command is executed in a terminal window.
sudo dpkg -i {file_you_downloaded}.deb
I think I used the wrong terminology. It was a command given on this help page https://support.plex.tv/articles/235974187-enable-repository-updating-for-supported-linux-server-distributions/
curl -LsSf https://repo.plex.tv/scripts/setupRepo.sh | sudo bash
I’m very tech savvy, but new to Linux and the networking side of things, though Ive been getting the hang of it more and more. I got the beta installed though, I just had to install over my existing build and it will automatically update to the next main release when it hits the repo.
EDIT- It seems the repo overwrote my beta install and reverted back to the main release. I guess I do need some additional guidance on this after all
It kept rolling me back when I just installed the beta over the existing version. I had to disable updates via repository and then install again. Now it’s installed and staying that way
