The Plex deb package ships with a source list file. If Plex media server isn’t running, you can start it with: sudo systemctl start plexmediaserver Enable Plex Repositoryīy enabling the official Plex repo, you can update Plex on Ubuntu with apt package manager. (Press q key to take back control of terminal.) We can check its status with: systemctl status plexmediaserverĪs you can see, it’s running on my Ubuntu 20.04 system. You can press the Tab key, which will autocomplete the filename. Note that when you type the following sudo dpkg -i plex sudo dpkg -i plexmediaserver_1.-e3c1f7bcd_b

So run the following command to install the Plex deb package. On Debian based Linux distros (Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc), dpkg is the standard command-line tool to install deb packages. For example, my Plex is downloaded to the Downloads directory under Home, so I run the following command. Once the Plex deb package is downloaded, cd to the download directory. If you are going to install Plex on a headless Ubuntu 20.04 server, then you can go to your browser’s download history, then copy the Plex download link and use wget to download Plex from command line like below.

Install Plex Media Server on Ubuntu 20.04įirst, go to Plex server download page, (You will need to log into your Plex account.) select Linux and choose Ubuntu (16.04+) / Debian (8+)with 32-bit or 64-bit. Plex can be installed on Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS, Windows and various NAS systems. Plex is a free piece of software that allows you to organize your movies, TV shows, music and photos in one beautiful interface and stream those media files on your PC, tablet, phone, TV, Roku, etc on the network or over the Internet. This tutorial will be showing you how to install Plex media server on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS server/desktop.

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