Download the latest Plex Media Server Package.Don’t bother trying to update Plex unless you first update your host server: yum update -y. Choose Done or click to view the Sync Status.

Choose the quality and other options to use.

Choose the device to sync to from the list.

Sign the server into your Plex account.

Sign Plex Web App into your Plex account.

Click on “Install Now.” It may ask for your password. If there are updates available, it will give you the option to install the updates. It will check if there are updates available for your system. Method 2: Update Ubuntu via the GUI In the menu, look for “Software Updater” and run it. If you start your Server at 12:15 and have it set to update every 30 minutes, then an update will start around 12:45. Note: The periodic frequency is based on when the Plex Media Server starts up.

After keys and source list has been updated, we need to update our package manager.

If you’re not sure how to login using SSH, please follow this guide: Once you’re logged in, there are a few commands that you need to run. Login into your Seedbox from the root ssh session.Next SSH onto the server and run the following command (making sure you replace the URL with the one you have copied): Copy the download link of the latest version from their site here. For some reason I had never thought to seek out a repo from Plex and have been manually updating all of this time.

Just a little quality of life improvement to help keep you on the latest version of Plex Media Server. You can now see that after running sudo apt update, Plex comes up in the list. Then add the key: curl | sudo apt-key add.

Please note that this guide is for users on Debian based systems.įirst, add the repo: echo deb public main | sudo tee /etc/apt//plexmediaserver.list I'm sure you've added a repo before but if you haven't, here is a step by step guide on how to add Plex's repo so you can update Plex with a command as simple as sudo apt update. Today, I found out Plex has a public repo you're able to add, making the update process a 30 second process versus a 3 minute process. This will be another quick write up but if you're like me, when you see it's time to update your Plex Media Server, you go out and manually download the file, make it executable, and then run it.

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