Download Plex Media Server for Linux

System Requirements

• 1.6 GHz processor (2.4 GHz dual core for 1080p transcoding).

• 256 MB RAM

• Gigabit Ethernet recommended for HD streaming.

• N.B. Flash and Silverlight video playback is not supported on Linux.

Tips

• For Bonjour discoverability, install and run Avahi.

• Fire up a web browser and point it to http://localhost:32400/manage

Plex Media Server for Linux - Ubuntu 11.04 or newer - v0.9.6.1

It's so easy! Add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list.d/plex.list file:

deb http://www.plexapp.com/repo lucid main

Then install with the following command:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install plexmediaserver

Plex Media Server for Linux - unRAID/Slackware - v0.9.6.1

Download the tarball. Run the start.sh script. Profit! Send us a photo of your killer unRAID setup.

Plex Media Server for Linux - ReadyNAS Intel-based devices - v0.9.6.1

Download the add-on here: Plex Media Server Add-on

For more information, the ReadyNAS blog has a great post about using the Plex Media Server on ReadyNAS devices.

Plex Media Server for Linux - Synology Intel-based NAS devices - v0.9.6.1

Download the Synology package here: Plex Media Server package

Make sure to check out the blog post that Synology wrote.

Plex Media Server for Linux - Cisco and QNAP Intel-based NAS devices - v0.9.6.1

Download the QPKG here: Plex Media Server QPKG

Plex Media Server for Linux - RPM based distributions (Fedora/CentOS) - v0.9.6.1

It's really really easy. Add this to your /etc/yum.repos.d/plex.repo (NOTE that the repo URL has been updated from 0.9.6.1!)

[PlexRepo]
name=PlexRepo
baseurl=http://plexapp.com/rpmrepo/release/$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

Then install it with this command:

$ yum install plexmediaserver

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