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I searched google and this forum ( That meets my personal requirements of looking 2 places before asking for help).
Nevermind, I asked gemini pro to ELI5: Here ya go! The warning you’re seeing now: Warning: https://downloads.plex.tv/repo/deb/dists/public/InRelease: Policy will reject signature within a year, see --audit for details
…is actually the very first message you reported.
What this means now:
Your system can now correctly read the Plex repository information.
Your system has the GPG key that Plex uses to sign their software.
The current GPG key provided by Plex is valid, but it is set to expire sometime within the next year.
This is not an error that will stop Plex from working or updating right now. It’s a standard informational warning from your package manager (apt) letting you know that the people who maintain the Plex repository (Plex themselves) will need to issue a new key or extend this one before it expires.
Think of it like this: You have a valid membership card (the GPG key) to get into a club (the Plex repository). The bouncer (your system) is just letting you know, “Hey, this card is good for now, but it’s going to expire in less than a year, so the club owners will eventually need to give out new ones.”
What you need to do (or not do):
For now, you likely don’t need to do anything further to fix this specific warning. Your setup is now correct to receive updates from Plex. The previous critical errors are fixed.
Plex Media Server should still install or update if you try to do so. The signature is still valid today.
This warning will likely continue to appear when you run sudo apt update until Plex updates the signing key on their end and your system automatically fetches the new key information during a future update.
This is a common situation with software repositories, and repository maintainers (like Plex) are usually aware of these expiration dates and manage them.
So, to be clear:
The previous issues preventing apt from reading the repository or verifying it due to a missing key or bad syntax in your configuration files appear to be fixed. This is great!
The current warning is about the Plex-supplied key itself and its future expiration. This is something Plex will handle.
