Was just playing around. It’s a great home entertainment tool indeed.
Method-1: Creating repository and using Yum
To enable the Plex repository open your text editor and create a new YUM repository configuration file named plex.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory:
[PlexRepo] name=PlexRepo baseurl=https://downloads.plex.tv/repo/rpm/$basearch/ enabled=1 gpgkey=https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-keys/PlexSign.key gpgcheck=1
Method-2: Installation using RPM
download the package for your Linux distro. It is much easier to do this by simply coping the download link location with right click and then you can run:
$ sudo rpm -ivh https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-media-server/1.13.8.5395-10d48da0d/plexmediaserver-1.13.8.5395-10d48da0d.x86_64.rpm
Alternatively, you can download the package on your system with wget command as shown.
$ wget https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-media-server/1.13.8.5395-10d48da0d/plexmediaserver-1.13.8.5395-10d48da0d.x86_64.rpm
If you’ve used install base using yum repo- you now need to install it, otherwise if you’re with RPM installation, you already have plex installed.
Install the latest version of the Plex Media Server with:
sudo yum install plexmediaserver
Once the installation is completed start the plexmediaserver service and enable it to start on system boot with the following commands:
sudo systemctl start plexmediaserver.service sudo systemctl enable plexmediaserver.service
Verify the installation
To verify if the Plex service is running type:
sudo systemctl status plexmediaserver
● plexmediaserver.service - Plex Media Server for Linux Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: active (running) since Sat 2018-07-21 22:22:22 UTC; 12s ago Main PID: 13940 (Plex Media Serv) CGroup: /system.slice/plexmediaserver.service
Adjust the Firewall Rules
Now that Plex is installed and running you need to configure your firewall to allow traffic on Plex Media Server specific ports. If you don’t have firewall enabled on your system, you can skip this section. Open your text editor of choice and create the following Firewalld service:
/etc/firewalld/services/plexmediaserver.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <service version="1.0"> <short>plexmediaserver</short> <description>Plex TV Media Server</description> <port port="1900" protocol="udp"/> <port port="5353" protocol="udp"/> <port port="32400" protocol="tcp"/> <port port="32410" protocol="udp"/> <port port="32412" protocol="udp"/> <port port="32413" protocol="udp"/> <port port="32414" protocol="udp"/> <port port="32469" protocol="tcp"/> </service>
Save the file and apply the new firewall rules by typing:
sudo firewall-cmd --add-service=plexmediaserver --permanent sudo firewall-cmd --reload
Finally check if the new firewall rules are applied successfully with:
sudo firewall-cmd --list-all public (active) target: default icmp-block-inversion: no interfaces: eth0 sources: services: ssh dhcpv6-client plexmediaserver ports: protocols: masquerade: no forward-ports: source-ports: icmp-blocks: rich rules:
Configure Plex Media Server
Create the directories in which you will keep your media files:
sudo mkdir -p /opt/plexmedia/{movies,series}
The Plex Media Server runs as the user plex which needs to have read and execute permissions to the media files and directories. To set the correct ownership run the following command.
sudo chown -R plex: /opt/plexmedia
Now heres’ the tricky part. For some reason, plex requires the ‘localhost’ concept and opensup the post installation process through this. That means, your CentOS box needs to have a Graphical Mode installed. So, if you’re not in the GUI mode, log out from CLI and login in the GUI mode, hit the browser and type:
http://YOUR_SERVER_IP:32400/web
and you will be presented with a setup wizard, which will guide you trough the Plex configuration:
Src:
https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-install-plex-media-server-on-centos-7/#google_vignette
https://www.tecmint.com/install-plex-media-server-on-centos-7/
