Install Plex On CentOS

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Description:

Follow these steps to install Plex on CentOS 7.

To Resolve:

  1. Go to Plex Downloads and get the latest installer for your OS, in this case CentOS 7:

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    sudo yum install plexmediaserver_0.9.8.18.290-11b7fdd_x86_64.rpm

# Start the service
sudo systemctl start plexmediaserver.service

# Set the service to run on startup
sudo systemctl enable plexmediaserver.service

# Open a firewall port for it
firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=32400/tcp --permanent

# If you set it to a different port (which is recommended), add it to the SEMANAGE exceptions
sudo semanage port -a -t http_port_t -p tcp (portNumber)

  2. To Change the Plex User:

    • All of my media files are on a Samba share with permissions of 770, so I had to change Plex to access the share as my user:
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    # Stop the service
sudo systemctl stop plexmediaserver

# Add my user to the plex group
sudo usermod -a -G plex gerry

# Edit the config file that tells Plex which user to run as
sudo vi /etc/sysconfig/PlexMediaServer

# Change user to gerry
sudo chown -R gerry /var/lib/PlexMediaServer

# Change the user in the service config file
sudo vi /lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service

# Reload the daemon
sudo systemctl daemon-reload

# Start the service again
sudo systemctl start plexmediaserver

  3. To Update Plex:

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    # Download the update to your downloads and open a up a terminal
systemctl stop plexmediaserver
wget https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-media-server-new/1.16.5.1554-1e5ff713d/redhat/plexmediaserver-1.16.5.1554-1e5ff713d.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uvh plexmediaserver-vXXXX
systemctl start plexmediaserver

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