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While you’re on the Downloads page, you may wish to download a player app as well. Related Page: NAS Devices Get a Plex (Player) App There are many platforms available:įrom the Downloads page, choose the platform or device you need, and download the installer.

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The Plex Media Server can be downloaded for free from the Plex Downloads page. Instead, you use the Plex Web App to manage your server. When you run the server on your computer, NAS, or other device, you won’t see a window open with a “server UI” or similar. Tip!: It’s important to understand that Plex Media Server does not have its own graphical user interface. Make sure you have show folders that contain season folders that contain the episodes

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For TV shows, the folder structure can be very important.

TV Show episodes are stored in their own folder as follows:Į.g., /TV Shows/Dexter/Season 01/Dexter s01e01.mp4.

TV Show episodes are named with the season and episode:.

Movies are gathered together in a “Movies” type folder, TV Shows in a “TV Shows” type folder, etc.

You may already be naming and organizing your media files in a way suitable for Plex. If not, you may notice content isn’t recognized, is mis-matched, or not found at all. Now, set the correct permission for the Plex user named plex to access the directory: sudo chown -R plex: /opt/plexmediaĪt this point, Plex is installed and ready to use.Before you begin installing Plex Media Server, it’s strongly recommended that you check that your media collection has been named and organized in a way that Plex will understand. To check the new firewall rules are applied or not, run the command below: sudo ufw status verbose Outputĭefault: deny (incoming), allow (outgoing), disabled (routed)ģ2400/tcp (plexmediaserver-all) ALLOW IN Anywhereģ005/tcp (plexmediaserver-all) ALLOW IN Anywhereĥ353/udp (plexmediaserver-all) ALLOW IN AnywhereĨ324/tcp (plexmediaserver-all) ALLOW IN Anywhereģ2410:32414/udp (plexmediaserver-all) ALLOW IN Anywhereġ900/udp (plexmediaserver-all) ALLOW IN Anywhereģ2469/tcp (plexmediaserver-all) ALLOW IN AnywhereĬreate the Plex catalog directory that will store its media files by running command below: sudo mkdir -p /opt/plexmedia/

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Next, run the commands below to update profiles list and apply the new firewall rules: sudo ufw app update plexmediaserver Title=Plex Media Server (Standard + DLNA)ĭescription=The Plex Media Server (with additional DLNA capability) To do that, create a new UFW Plex media server profile by running the commands below : sudo nano /etc/ufw/applications.d/plexmediaserverĪfter that, paste the below lines into the UFW Plex media server profile file: If you are using UFW to manage your firewall then you will need configure UFW firewall to allow traffic to Plex server. You can use the commands below to stop, start and enable Plex media server: sudo systemctl stop plexmediaserver

To verify the installation of Plex, run the command below: sudo systemctl status plexmediaserver

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Next, run the commands below to install Plax Media Server: sudo apt update

The commands above will add Plex APT repository and import the GPG key for the repository. Sudo sh -c 'echo "deb public main $(lsb_release -sc) contrib" > /etc/apt//plexmediaserver.list' To do that, run the commands below: wget -q -O - | sudo apt-key add. Plex is not available in the Ubuntu default repositories, so you will need to manually add its repository. To install Plex, first update the default package index list in your system by running commands below: sudo apt update