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Does anyone know how to get Plex Media Server to work with Ubuntu?

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  • Could you separate solution from the question and post it as answer. – user.dz Nov 15 '16 at 12:26
  • I don't have privileges to post comments or answers on other posts and I just wanted to help others....Let me try to answer this post and edit my answer as a question.... – EODCraft Staff Nov 15 '16 at 19:13
  • Actually, you can make answer, and comment only on your own posts. See below do you notice the `answer your question` button. post the down there as an answer, then update the question to keep only the issue with its its description. See [about] – user.dz Nov 15 '16 at 19:19
  • Nice you have already got that, could you extend the question with more details of the problem you have faced and reference some links to the instructions you have followed but did work. – user.dz Nov 15 '16 at 19:22
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    I don't recall all the other posts I have tried including one YouTube Video that crashed my system (It had people editing the fstab file), which I assume caused my system not to boot. If I come across them I will post them on here. The main problem was that none of the other help topics addressed what Version of Ubuntu they were getting to work with PMS and never addressed 16.04 or in my 1st case scenario, 16.10 specifically. – EODCraft Staff Nov 15 '16 at 19:41

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For 16.04 you need to edit this file:

/lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service

and run this command:

systemctl daemon-reload

Then you can stop and start plex

service plexmediaserver stop

service plexmediaserver start
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Ubuntu 14.04 Only

I have tried to follow several posts for setting up a Plex Media Server on Ubnutu 16.04 and up with no luck. It works perfectly on 14.04 so I suggest if you are having difficulties as I did, Just use 14.04 and the setup is very straight forward.

  1. The only change that is needed is editing this file:

     sudo nano /etc/default/plexmediaserver

    and changing the plex user to you as here:

     export PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_USER=steve

    The user that PMS should run as, defaults to 'plex' note that if you change this you might need to move the Application Support directory to not lose your media library (match what is in /etc/passwd)

  2. Changing Groups and restarting Service

    Stop the service:

     sudo service plexmediaserver stop

    Then add user steve to Group Plex:

     sudo addgroup plex steve

    and finally start back the service:

     sudo service plexmediaserver start

I hope this helps someone like me that spent 2 days banging their head on the keyboard! :)

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