Install Plex Media Server on Raspberry Pi 2 The awesome Plex Media Server can now finally be installed on the Raspberry Pi 2 without a chroot. The chroot method broke when using upstart scripts and had metadata issues, those are no longer a problem Using a Synology package compiled for an ARMv. The Hortonworks Data Platform HDP is an enterprisegrade, hardened Apache Hadoop distribution that enables you to store, process, and manage large data sets. Apache. Pi 2 with a bit of extra work. This will unfortunately not work on the B or earlier models as they use an ARMv. Many thanks to uglymagoo from the Plex forum who identified the package that could be used without a chroot on the Raspberry Pi 2. I used a minimal Raspbian distribution Minibian for this guide, when you are done Plex will also autostart on boot. Windows8.jpeg' alt='How To Install Gen Y Dual Boot' title='How To Install Gen Y Dual Boot' />Video uploaded from my mobile phone. 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This how to also has a section on fixing Plex permissions so if your Plex cant see your folders then you will be able to solve that problem here. March 2. 01. 6 Update Jessie Image posted compatible with Raspberry Pi 2 and Pi 3. Previous Update Method 3 for early Plex releases now working with Jessie. Image Updated August 2. Minibian Jessie with Kernel 4. Plex 0. 9. 1. 2. 8 if you experience issues use this image use the installer Instructions Updated for Plex 0. Raspbian Wheezy start at Pre install requirements. There are also Media Server and HTPC Combo Images available here that combine Kodi, usenet and torrent automation. Plex for ARM CPU architectures is compiled with very limited transcoding abilities. Do not expect transcoding to work, you will get the best experience by using Direct. Play or Direct. Stream features of Plex streaming locally. H2. 64 content should play remotely as long your internet connection can support it and client can play back the medias codecs. If your content has subtitles it will not work for transcoding. The Banana Pi can run Plex Media Server as well and sports a SATA and gigabit port for extra speed see benchmarks. Guides for other ARMv. ODROID C1, Orange Pi and Banana Pi. This guide has been split up into four methods in order of easiest to hardest. You must start with the pre install section to make sure the locales are in order before you proceed to the other methods, I recommend using the repository as it is easiest and fastest. Now there is a guide to install the Plex Un. Supported App. Store. Many users want to mount their hard drives, here is a guide for that so you can find your media in Plex. Installation Checklist. This guide is rather long and easy to overlook things so here is a checklist of what you need to do. Verify you have the enUS locale. Verify you have the libc. Plex Media Server. Make sure you have libexpat. Make sure you are using the right repository must be jessie if you want the latest and greatest. Move the transcoding folder to your external hard drive. Do not use Wi. Fi if you want the best results. Stick to Method 1 for installation. Avoid using Plex. IP address or dynamic DNS address. Monitor Plex Media Server and restart it automatically with this guide. Do not use Plex. tv instead use Dynamic DNS and a reverse proxy with this guide. Fix Plex permissions at the bottom of this postIf you are having problems with video playback you can use an older transcoder with this guide. Pre Install Requirements. Generate Locales. This command lists current locales and fix any locale error otherwise see the comments from Jasonlocale a. My output looks like this. C. POSIXIf you dont have enUS. To generate the locale edit the locale generator configuration file first to enable the localesudo nano etclocale. Uncomment this line by deleting the enUS. UTF 8 UTF 8. CtrlX, Y and Enter to save. Now generate the localessudo locale gen. If you get the locale gen cannot be found error it is probably because you are on Minibian, use this commandecho export PATHPATH usrsbin. Now generate the locales again if you get the locale gen cannot be found errorsudo locale gen. Reconfigure locales for good measure sourcesudo dpkg reconfigure locales. Upgrade libc. 6 to 2. Raspbian. As of Plex 0. Wheezy the current prevalent repo only has version 2. You can install version 2. If you dont care about having the latest and greates version then you can just use uglymagoos Wheezy repo. I recommend backing up your SD card before manipulating your packages. Make sure you have read the warnings above and have backed up or are using an extra SD card. Check which version of the glibc. If the output says 2. Add Jessie repositoriesecho deb http mirrordirector. Create the jessie preferences file so we can control itsudo nano etcaptpreferences. Paste this code. Pinning forces jessie to be of a lower priority so it doesnt conflict with existing packages, a value of 1 means only packages we specify to be installed from jessie will be installed from there, no other packages should be affected unless they are dependencies. Package Pin release njessie. Pin Priority 1. Now CtrlX, Press Y and then Enter. Update packagessudo apt get update. Install libc. 6 from the Jessie repositorysudo apt get install t jessie libc. When prompted say yes to restart services automatically under installation. Now you should have libc. Check the version againldd version. If it still says any version below 2. Add this information or adjust your pin priority so it matches. Package Pin release nwheezy. Pin Priority 9. CtrlX, Y and enter to savesudo apt get update. If you ever experience issues when installing other packages in the future you may need to install dependencies like thissudo apt get install t jessie packagename. Method 1 Install Plex Media Server on Raspberry Pi 2 using Repository. Enable https transport or you will get this error E The method driver usrlibaptmethodshttps could not be found. Grab uglymaoos gpg key for his repositorywget O https dev. Add uglymagoos repository, if your ldd version output said 2. If you dont care about having the latest version you can change jessie to wheezy in the line belowecho deb https dev. Update your package listssudo apt get update. Install Plex Media Serversudo apt get install plexmediaserver installer y. If you manually installed libc. When you know there is a new version of Plex Media Server you can upgrade with this command nowsudo apt get update sudo apt get upgrade y. Access Plex on your Raspberry Pi 2 at this URL, replace ip. IP http ip. address 3. If it hasnt started then you may have a systemd init. Debian jessie, start Plex manually like this, the puts in the background. If you are troubleshooting leave out the to get some error information. Go shopping for a new hard drive at Amazon to store your media. Read about usenet for grabbing content automatically. If you need to remove Plex you can do so with this commandsudo apt get remove plexmediaserver y. Method 2  Old Easy Install Method. Check Hardware Software Properly Installed 3. This method grabs the latest package straight from uglymagoos repository. It was used before uglymagoo created a repository and is only here for the sake of completion. Enter your temp folder, this will ensure the package is emptied after you rebootcd tmp. Remove any existing plex package in case you are upgrading to the newest version from an older versionrm plexmediaserver Grab the latest Plex Media Server package link from here, you must know if you are on Wheezy or Jessie. Replace the http link below with the link you copied. Install the latest Plex Media Server Packagesudo dpkg i plext will autostart on boot when you restart your machine, go to http ip. Plex should pop up. You can start and stop the service with this command, replace restart with start or stop as you see fitsudo service plexmediaserver restart. If you want to remove plex using this methodsudo dpkg r plexmediaserver. You do not need to read the rest of this guide but can now configure Plex or install some transcoding tools at the bottom of this post.