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Plex media server for Slackware

Posted 10-22-2013 at 12:50 PM by trxdraxon
Updated 09-16-2021 at 05:57 AM by trxdraxon

I got Plex media server up and running smoothly on my Slackware box and thought I would share my experience. It is pretty easy to get running but there is little to no documentation for Slackware as it is not officially supported.

EDIT: Forgot to add that the package is 32bit so you will need multilib installed.

First install the uNRAID package. Once it's installed there is a settings.ini in /boot/config/plugins/plexmediaserver that you should edit. You can edit the default directories for the Plex temp directory and the Plex library for metadata. It defaults to /tmp and can get quite large so I would recommend changing it. My media collection is around 700gigs which makes around 2gigs of metadata.

Now you need to edit the /usr/local/plexmediaserver/start.sh
from this

Code:

#!/bin/sh
SCRIPT=$(readlink -f $0)
SCRIPTPATH=`dirname ${SCRIPT}`
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${SCRIPTPATH}"
export PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_MAX_PLUGIN_PROCS=6
ulimit -s 3000
./Plex\ Media\ Server

To this

Code:

#!/bin/sh
SCRIPT=$(readlink -f $0)
SCRIPTPATH=`dirname ${SCRIPT}`
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${SCRIPTPATH}"
export PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_MAX_PLUGIN_PROCS=6
ulimit -s 3000
$SCRIPTPATH/Plex\ Media\ Server

This allows you to start the script from any directory.

To start the server you need to run

Code:

/etc/rc.d/rc.plexmediaserver start

and

Code:

sh /usr/local/plexmediaserver/start.sh &

You can obviously autostart these but I start them manually because I rarely reboot my desktop and I don't leave Plex running if I am at my computer.

Now open up your web browser and go to http://localhost:32400/manage/index.html and add your media libraries and you are done.

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