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Skatman88 03-30-2015 12:36 PM

Having issues downloading and installing Plex.
 
Don't suppose someone can tell me exactly what to write in order to download and install PMS on Arch? I'm about to throw my computer out of the window.

First I tried:

Code:

sudo pacman -S plex-media-server-plexpass
And it cannot find anyting. I've only managed to find Plex Home Theatre using this method.

Next I tried:

Code:

sudo pacman -U https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-media-server/0.9.11.17.986-269b82b/plexmediaserver-0.9.11.17.986-269b82b.x86_64.rpm
Which resulted in an error stating:

Code:

error: failed retrieving file 'plexmediaserver-0.9.11.17.986-269b82b.x86_64.rpm.sig' from downloads.plex.tv : the requested URL returned error: 404
warning: failed to download https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-media-server/0.9.11.17.986-269b82b/plexmediaserver-0.9.11.17.986-269b82b.x86_64.rpm.sig
loading packages...
error: '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/plexmediaserver-0.9.11.17.986-269b82b.x86_64.rpm' : package missing required signature.

I mean, what am I doing wrong? Can someone please tell me exactly what to type in to download and install PMS?

Cheers

exvor 03-30-2015 02:12 PM

This is because Plex is not part of the official packages offered.

You will need to install this from the AUR.


here is the wiki.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Plex

Skatman88 03-31-2015 11:50 AM

Forgive me for being rubbish, but how would one go about installing something via AUR instead?

Skatman88 03-31-2015 12:36 PM

Ok,

I've entered this command:

Code:

wget https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pl/plex-media-server-plexpass/PKGBUILD
then typed "makepkg"

Producing this error:

Code:

==> ERROR: install file (plex-media-server.install) does not exist or is not a regular file.
Any ideas?

Skatman88 03-31-2015 12:43 PM

Also tried the same with the tar.gz

Receiving this message:

Code:

sudo pacman -U plex-media-server-plexpass.tar.gz

error: missing package metadata in plex-media-server-plexpass.tar.gz
error 'plex-media-server-plexpass.tar.gz' : invalid or corrupted package


exvor 04-01-2015 12:08 PM

You need to untar the pkgbuild before you run makepkg
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...ser_Repository

Skatman88 04-01-2015 03:07 PM

This issue is now sorted, thank you for your help.


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