
Reboot your new plexmediaserver and test. sudo chown -R plex lex /var/lib/plexmediaserver/.Upon completion, change the owner of the plexmediaserver directory to the plex user on your new plexmediaserver, Plex on Ubuntu requires this user to be the owner of the directory sudo rsync -azvh /var/lib/plexmediaserver/.

Stop the plexmediaserver service on your old plexmediaserver and your new plexmediaserver Prepare your metadata directory, you will need to delete the contents of the Library: sudo rm -rf /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library.Install plexmediaserver: sudo apt install plexmediaserver -y.Check for updates and install them: sudo apt update & sudo apt upgrade.Install the Plex Repository: echo deb public main | sudo tee /etc/apt//plexmediaserver.list.Install the Plex Signed Key: curl | sudo apt-key add –.On your new Plex server, perform the following steps I did check firewall status, as well as my router - making sure port 32400 was open.This HOW TO assumes that you are using Ubuntu 20.04.x, the principles will remain the same regardless of your Operating System However, I am unable to find where the error exists or why it is problematic. I thought I'd be better at getting things done on Linux since moving from Windows to Ubuntu for my desktop environment. I guess it is obvious that this wouldn't work if it was returning an error from the installer. So, the next step after install would be to browse to localhost:32400/web/ and setup my media sources. In all cases it appears to install ok, although at times, it returns a status 1 error from the install script. I followed two different instructions, one approach described in a course on using Raspberry Pi as a home server. I have tried downloading the installer, adding a plex.list to my /etc/apt// directory. There are multiple different approaches to installing Plex on Ubuntu 16 desktop.


I want to start by stating that I have used Plex Media Server several times in the past on Ubuntu 16.
