Plex Media Server | Install on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

What's up, guys!!! In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through installing Plex Media Server on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Plex is a streaming media server that lets you organize your video, music, and photo collections and stream them to all of your devices at any time and from anywhere.
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[@thermalhybrid90]

This was my first experience with Linux/Ubuntu, I really appreciate this style of tutorial. Thanks a lot man.

[@KeepItTechie]

You're welcome!

[@lucyd75]

Just wanna say a big thank you for this! I bought the pi before knowing if I'd be able to install this (I'm a newbie when it comes to Linux/Ubuntu), and I was losing hope after spending days searching for a tutorial I could actually understand. This was step by step, exactly what a newbie needs! Now my server is up and running, yay!! :)

[@Paul-uh9kp]

This is the video that actually helped me get PLEX working on Linux Mint. Make sure you watch up to and past 14:40. This will show you what to do if you are having issues with initial install. Again, watch past 14:40. Great video.

[@theplanteman]

Thanks Man! Appreciate the help and the details. Some of these KZbin jokers cut corners in their videos and they you set there wondering why the S is not working.

[@KeepItTechie]

No problem bro!! 🫡

[@b40slayer94]

Hey mate, great tutorial. I was able to install this on my Orange Pi 5 plus fairly easily. Only issue I had was getting Plex to detect the movies on my hard drive. After further research you need to set a mount folder in your system when using an external drive

[@hunggarrebel2801]

love that 14:29 casual tiananmen square drop into the video. That's the kind of petty I can get behind. Well played sir

[@kirin4244]

You are my favorite Linux/Ubuntu tutorial channel right now. Thank you.

[@munyxxi]

Thank you for the tutorial, just wanted to say that the werb version of this tutorial has an error: when opening the plex webpage it says to go to port 8888 when it should be 32400

[@qpackard2]

Thanks, this is the best plex tutorial I have found. I would still be screaming if it were not for your explanation about the firewall, why Plex does not include some basic instructions about the firewall is beyond me.

[@ericcunningham5190]

Thank you so much for this video. I used it the first time I set up my server and it was super helpful. I've had to set it back up a couple of times and this video is always where I go!

[@tomatoperfecto]

very good video, no frills, clear and concise. ive been using plex for years but never without gui. thanks for putting it out there. nice to dip my toe before i dive in.

[@KeepItTechie]

Glad you liked it!

[@steveclackuk]

Explained nice and clearly. You gave me all the bits i needed to know with none of the crap. Appreciate that.

[@KeepItTechie]

No problem bro! I appreciate you stopping by.

[@alexbazydlo]

Thanks you, sir. I had no idea how the hell to access the server once I installed the package from the official website. You saved me from a massive migraine.

[@KeepItTechie]

Glad I could help

[@gw4410]

I am a new user to Ubuntu. Those commands to set it all up were awesome

[@davidchouinard8275]

SUPER thank you. You really take the time to explain what happens and that great.

[@KeepItTechie]

Glad it was helpful!

[@StudentoftheUniverse-f7z]

Thank you so much for this and your other tutorials. Great place to get it from the man that has most everything Plex covered :)

[@dantewhite7206]

The intro music is a banger!

[@MostlyDrew]

do you have a guide on how to connect the ubuntu server to a NAS or shared network folder? I can only find guides for ubuntu builds that have gui

[@enlightment4747]

everything worked bro but it would be great if you kept going on access your shared folders. Im still working on it.

[@KeepItTechie]

Part 2 here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rGXSqYmnYs6NbLs

[@bjclenster]

dude that was awesome!! Newb to linux... Will this work?: I have have a micro pc that I want to set up with Ubuntu and run Roon Core and Plex. I have a latest gen mini pc that I want to use as a DIY NAS using OpenMediaVault. THAT is where I would like my Plex media to live. Can I do this if I can map a drive from the NAS to the Plex server pc? In other words, does Plex media have to physically live on the same box that the Plex server is installed on?

[@cleanshot5314]

Great video! This was incredibly helpful and well-explained. The content was presented in a clear and concise manner, making it easy to understand and follow along. Thank you for taking the time to create such a valuable resource. Keep up the excellent work!"

[@KeepItTechie]

Thanks 👍🏾

[@Yongchan704]

Thanks bro, very usefull topic, love your channel bro

[@raeraetan]

Hey bro your earlier video required creating a new Plex media firewall profile. Is this still required? Thanks!

[@alexlay7809]

Jus FYI, in your written installation instructions you placed downloading the plex key before adding the repository.

[@kenelman]

Excellent video!!! What else can you teach me?!? Super chill, as well!

[@justinnghiem147]

You are the GOAT I will be subbing!

[@KeepItTechie]

Thanks fam!

[@shish99]

Great video! Thanks. I'm wondering, can media be kept in the user's home folder? Would that be a better way to go than using opt or mtn? I ran into a lot of permissions issues when trying to keep media in my home folder, as Plex wouldn't show the contents in it without my adjusting the permissions. Took me ages to find how and why this has to be done. Is there any possibility you could do a tutorial on how to deal with that for newbies?

[@KeepItTechie]

Yes, absolutely! You can store the media anywhere on the local machine. If it's remote, just mount it to a directory locally.

[@numetalmarkchavez24]

11:22 if my firewall is already active do I need to disable it? Or can I run the ufw command without having to disable it?

[@KeepItTechie]

Just open the ports if your firewall is active.

[@numetalmarkchavez24]

@@KeepItTechie I tried running the "sudo ufw allow OpenSSH" command and immediately got this "ERROR: Could not find a profile matching 'OpenSSH" :(

[@KeepItTechie]

@@numetalmarkchavez24 You can just run it using the port number if the profile name not working. sudo ufw allow 22

[@VideoCraver19]

after installing plex media server. I checked my status and it says "failed" instead of active (exit-code). How can i make it active?

[@Keizer_Soze]

Awesome! Thank you, Josh

[@johnjones2161]

Hello I really need help I'm trying to set up a plex server on Pop os and I can't get plex to see my disks that i have my media on . keeping it real i just moved from windows 10 and don't know anything about linux I could really use your help I have been watching some of you work on here but I still am not getting it. Can you help?

[@KeepItTechie]

Hey there! No worries, making the switch from Windows to Linux can be tricky at first. To get Plex to see your disks on Pop!_OS, you'll need to mount your drives and set the correct permissions. Start by opening the file manager and clicking on your media drives under "Devices" to mount them. Next, open a terminal and use the command sudo chown -R plex:plex /path/to/your/media (replace /path/to/your/media with your actual media folder path) to give Plex permission to access your files. Finally, in Plex, go to "Settings," then "Libraries," and click "Add Library." Select the type of media you're adding and browse to the directory where your media is stored. If you still run into issues, feel free to reach out again. You've got this!

[@airic2897]

damn dude thanks for this, appreciate it

[@Firebone21]

Hello I followed your guide step by step but I don't think I have the media server installed but onlyu the web app version. Any ideas? When I try to add my own movie library it redirects me to plex media server

[@darrylkinsey]

What vmware program are you using?

[@terrygonyon4490]

Great video! considering converting my windows based plex server to Linux and I found this video helpful. You mentioned shared drives and permissions on another video? This is what i need help wit the most. Currently my Plex server is based on the OS drive and all media is on separate drives. So I need to learn how to migrate those drives over and make them accessible to plex. I believe I would need to permanently mount the drives and change the permissions?

[@KeepItTechie]

Yep you can mount the drive using the fstab file. Once you do this, every time your server reboots it will automatically mount the share the server. You can adjust the permissions as needed once you do that. I'll make a video and try to cover all the scenarios.

[@terrygonyon4490]

@@KeepItTechie Thank you! that would be helpful. I cant find a definitive answer on how to do this. The drives already have media on them and I believe formatted in Fat-32 so it would be just Install Linux and get it up and running and then install the media drives and figure it out from there. Great videos thank you.

[@metacontinuum]

@@terrygonyon4490 On a side note; back up all your precious media on a master hdd to prevent an aww $hit moment when transferring or mounting your drives to a new OS platform. It may or may not ask to format those drives in order to be recognize on the new system.

[@terrygonyon4490]

@@metacontinuum I definitely do that already. Backups of backups LOL

[@mmbabji]

hi Josh, how do i enable gues logins with restricted permission ? in web login.

[@diesvincent1904]

great step by step

[@formation4]

Could you go into more detail with permissions. My Plex server won't let me add my folders for movies, TV shows etc. I have it set up on another machine and it worked fine. My main machine doesn't show any drives etc

[@KeepItTechie]

I realized after I created this video that I left out covering this, so I created a part 2. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rGXSqYmnYs6NbLs

[@formation4]

@@KeepItTechie much appreciated. I've watched that video and am going to give it a go 👍

[@lebelyan]

Hi, it worked fine at first but now, I can't access my libraries (exclamation point) and it writes ''there was an error navigating to the specified item'. Please make sure you are connected to the internet and try again.'' Can you help? My internet is working fine and i'm a noob in Linux.

[@KeepItTechie]

Sorry for the delay. Its most likely a permissions issue. Check the permissions on the location.

[@lebelyan]

Thanks you so much!! With your other video posted today, it's working fine!!! It was well explained .😃

[@KeepItTechie]

You're one of the reasons I created the one for today. 💪🏾 Glad it worked out.

[@88BadDog]

dude U are on to linux so good every search for tricks. u appear😅

[@KeepItTechie]

😅 Thanks bro!

[@coldfire05]

when I enter the command sudo ufw allow OpenSSH, I get the following message ERROR: Could not find a profile matching 'OpenSSH' Background information: I used your video about a couple years ago to get my Plex server installed and up and running. All was fine till I uninstalled another instance of the Plex server from another computer and I inadvertently deleted my main one. Now I can't seem to get things rolling again What do I need to do?

[@DaBigBase]

1. sudo apt-get install ssh 2. cd ~/openvpn-ca sudo ufw allow OpenSSH

[@alexlay7809]

The video helpd a lot, thanks, but, once Plex needs to be updated, then what?

[@KeepItTechie]

Just run the normal server updates for Ubuntu. It's a little behind but you with get them if you added the repository like I did. Run "sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y".

[@YaMoonSun]

I did everything in this video except signing into an account, and the media scanner isn't detecting the files in library path I setup

[@KeepItTechie]

Double check the permissions on the directory. You can also add the plex user as the owner of the directory.

[@YaMoonSun]

@@KeepItTechie Turns out, I encrypted my home directory, so I had to sudo chmod -R 755 /home/username first, and then after I used sudo chown -R Plex on the directory I created, I had to sudo chmod -R 777 Plex my Plex directory so I could copy/paste movies from my /home/username/Videos directory without escalated privileges (root)

[@Converxful]

It never asks me for server setup :( I have an empty plex web no local server

[@Laihoistheman]

So two things, your website is down and two it said it couldnt find profile OpenSSH when i typed in that command, any ideas?

[@KeepItTechie]

Check again if you typed it in correctly based on the listed apps in ufw "sudo ufw app list". If that doesn't work just open it using the port itself, 22. Thanks for letting me know my website was down. You will be mentioned in my next video.

[@Laihoistheman]

@@KeepItTechie heyy im learning, my second instinct when OpenSSH didnt work was to just replace it with 22 and that seemed to do the trick. good to know about the app list though.

[@guacfiend]

I get the error not authorized on focal

[@ethangender]

Im not very happy that plex register your server on the internet plex server, how are you sure you can protect your local files from being stolen from plex internet servers ?

[@KeepItTechie]

I can understand your concern about privacy and security. Plex does have an option to disable remote access and only allow local network access, which can help mitigate any potential risks. Additionally, it's important to keep your Plex server and local network secure with strong passwords and other security measures. But ultimately, it's up to you to weigh the benefits and risks of using Plex or any other service. Thanks for bringing up this important topic and stay safe out there!

[@SMGGM]

19:09 unfortunately that is the part in which I'm stuck at.

[@shish99]

Same here. What I expected is to be able to create a 'media' directory in my home directory, and after creating 'movies' and 'tv shows' directories, and adding the appropriate media to those directories, that Plex would be able to read from it. However, it doesn't, and this is a pesky user/group issue that Plex for Linux burdens users with. KeepItTechie, if you can walk folks through how to deal with that setup, that would be really appreciated.

[@SMGGM]

​@@shish99 I formatted my drives under Ext4, created an auto mount under /media/movies and it worked. My drivers were originally NTFS (because I came from Windows and did not want to remove everything) but in the end I had little choice. A forum suggested that as solution so spend a day restoring backup. It works and I can continue using my 12 years old pc as media center (it used to run Windows 7 which I couldn't upgrade anymore to W10).

[@anasouardini]

Why would I ever login to my service on my server with google?

[@Bom69420]

do i need to setup firewall thing on local server?

[@KeepItTechie]

Only if you open it up to the world, otherwise you're good.

[@Bom69420]

@@KeepItTechie thanks

[@tombrand5809]

Thank you!

[@KeepItTechie]

No problem!

[@justawfulgamer7738]

install was the easy part. its getting Plex to see and scan my external drive and stay mounted that's my issue

[@davidpugh8772]

i'm in need of help and apparently no youtuber's copy paste links are working anymore...

[@KeepItTechie]

What's up? What do you need?

[@davidpugh8772]

@KeepItTechie I'm so confused now that I wish I would have never spent time, energy, or money on this. I should've just used the desktop version, but everyone said no, you want the server version... but I can't transfer the videos from my windows pc to the server using filezilla, then I have 2 drives installed in the server one is a 512 gb nvme as a boot the other a 12 tb hdd for media how can I tell it where I want the media to be on a specific drive?

[@davidpugh8772]

I'm going to go to bed for the night and come back in the morning to go through everything again

[@endyrodriguez4854]

Why does my plex fail to start?

[@somi940]

How to fix ufw command not found

[@KeepItTechie]

To troubleshoot the "ufw command not found" error, you can try installing the Uncomplicated Firewall, checking your system's PATH environment variable, and verifying the location of the "ufw" command.

[@TheAquaticGeek]

Suberb, thank you

[@KeepItTechie]

Welcome 👍

[@gaizka23d]

Where do I download the movies, series, etc?

[@KeepItTechie]

Not sure bro. I follow all laws when it comes to piracy. I ripped a lot of my old DVD's to digital.

[@gaizka23d]

@@KeepItTechie Ah ok, thanks. You have your VM in "NAT" or "Bridge"

[@KeepItTechie]

@@gaizka23d No problem. I always set my vm server to bridge to allow them to get an IP from my router.

[@kainblock]

Nice tutorial but don't waste your time with plex. It's just flex you with his paid features just when you install it.