

Static IP address set up on your serverīefore Installing the Plex server, make ensure that your Ubuntu server is up to date with all security patches.Ubuntu running server at least 10.04 version or higher.For best results minimum 2.4GHz processor with 2GB of RAM.

But today we will show you how to set up the Plex Media Server on the Ubuntu server 10.0.4, 16.04.3 or 17.04 LTS or any newer or older version.Ĭonfiguring the Plex Media Server on Ubuntu How To Install & Configure P lex Media Server on Ubuntu Using Command Line Plex Media Server Ubuntu Hardware Requirements Even the Plex Media Server can run on NETGEAR Nighthawk X10 Wireless. You can also install the Plex cloud on without any hardware on Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive. While the Plex Media Server supports Amazon FireTV, Android, Chromecast, iOS, Xbox, PlayStation, Apple TV, Roku, Android TV and various types of smart TVs. The Plex clients available for mobile devices, smart TVs, and streaming boxes, a web app, and the Plex Home Theater. Plex is a client-server based media server and uses two main components to provide the audio-video streaming: one is Plex media server and other is Plex Media client. Plex is also available for Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD and more.

You can convert your Ubuntu Linux machine into a full-fledge Plex media server. It supports digital video and audio that can access virtually from anywhere via local network or Internet. Plex server allows you to organize and stream all your media content from one place. You can use the "disks" application for this or manually using console terminal commands.Plex media server is a full feature media-rich library platform.

If you change the mounting point of the other drives and their partitions to use "/mnt" instead then they work well. You should not need to edit the Plex configuration files for this.Īs Caridi was eluding to, the only issues I have seen with Plex and some other media servers is that when using other drive partitions and or external drives and partitions with media files (videos, movies, music, pictures) is that they did not like the default Linux mounting point of "/media/username/".
