


“Canonical’s Snap Store provides an easy and secure way to distribute our software to an increasing number of consumers.” We can also expect to get future Plex updates automatically, through the Snap store, directly from the Plex team, a benefit Tamas Szelei, Software Engineer at Plex, notes: etc/ufw/applications.Snaps ruin the pretence that Linux is difficult or unwieldy to useĪdding the popular media tool to the shelves of the Snap store means you, me, and anyone else can install and set-up their own personal media server faster, and with less effort than before. If you are using UFW to manage your firewall, the easiest option is to create a UFW application profile: sudo nano /etc/ufw/applications.d/plexmediaserver If you do not have a firewall running on your system, skip this section. Now that Plex is installed and running on your server, you need to make sure the server firewall is configured to allow traffic on the Plex-specific ports. At this point, you have a Plex media server installed on your Ubuntu machine. Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/rvice enabled vendor preset: enabled)Īctive: active (running) since Thu 19:36:33 UTC 23min ago The output should look something like this: To verify that the Plex is running, check the service status: sudo systemctl status plexmediaserver Once the repository is enabled, update the apt package list and install the latest server version: sudo apt update sudo apt install plexmediaserver

Plex is proprietary computer software, and it is not included in the Ubuntu repositories. This article explains how to install Plex Media Server on Ubuntu 22.04. Plex media server can be installed on all major operating systems and devices. Plex is a streaming media server that lets you organize your video, music, and photo collections and stream your media to your computer, phone, tablet, or TV at any time and from anywhere.
