How to install Plex media player on Ubuntu – 18.04

To install Plex media player on Ubuntu &ndash 18.04
Plex is a free feature-rich media library platform that provides a way to store all your movies, shows, and other media in one place. You can access Plex from any device, whether you’ re at home or anywhere. There are many different media tools available in the world like Kodi, Xmbc, OSMC, and Mediatomb, but the Plex Media Server is perhaps one of the most popular solutions for managing media. Plex runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD and many more.

Installation

Download a package using this following command as follows.

root@linuxhelp1:~# wget https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-media-server/1.10.1.4602-f54242b6b/plexmediaserver_1.10.1.4602-f54242b6b_amd64.deb
--2018-04-25 20:26:18--  https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-media-server/1.10.1.4602-f54242b6b/plexmediaserver_1.10.1.4602-f54242b6b_amd64.deb
Resolving downloads.plex.tv (downloads.plex.tv)... 104.18.156.41, 104.18.157.41, 2400:cb00:2048:1::6812:9d29, ...
Connecting to downloads.plex.tv (downloads.plex.tv)|104.18.156.41|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 108445778 (103M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘ plexmediaserver_1.10.1.4602-f54242b6b_amd64.deb’ 
plexmediaserver_1.10.1.4602-f54 100%[======================================================> ] 103.42M  1.01MB/s    in 2m 17s  
2018-04-25 20:28:36 (774 KB/s) - ‘ plexmediaserver_1.10.1.4602-f54242b6b_amd64.deb’  saved [108445778/108445778]

Now need to install Gdebi package, which is used to install Debian packages with their dependency.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install gdebi -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3
  libaprutil1-ldap
Use ' sudo apt autoremove'  to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
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Setting up gdebi-core (0.9.5.7+nmu2) ...
Setting up gnome-icon-theme (3.12.0-3) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/debian-swirl.svg to provide /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/start-here.svg (start-here.svg) in auto mode
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.2-1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libpango-perl (1.227-2build1) ...
Setting up gdebi (0.9.5.7+nmu2) ...
Setting up libgtk2-perl (2:1.24992-1build1) ...

Then, install a Plex media server as follows.

root@linuxhelp1:~# gdebi plexmediaserver_1.9.4.4325-1bf240a65_amd64.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree        
Reading state information... Done
Reading state information... Done

Plex organizes all of your personal media so you can easily access and enjoy it.
Do you want to install the software package? [y/N]:y
Selecting previously unselected package plexmediaserver.
(Reading database ... 137966 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack plexmediaserver_1.9.4.4325-1bf240a65_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking plexmediaserver (1.9.4.4325-1bf240a65) ...
Setting up plexmediaserver (1.9.4.4325-1bf240a65) ...
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/plexmediaserver.service &rarr  /lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service.
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-20) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (237-3ubuntu6) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...

You can access the Plex media player from the activity menu as shown.

Choose the account to sign in.

Next, configure the server setup.

Add the media library and click next.

And then here we have to confirm the installation of Plex media player application.

With this, the method to install Plex media player on Ubuntu &ndash 18.04 comes to an end.