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The following PKGBUILD file worked for me for the latest plexmediaserver version as of 12.03.2012: # Contributor: Praekon <praekon@googlemail.com> # Contributor: Arthur <arthur.darcet@m4x.org> # Contributor: Jon Wiersma <archaur@jonw.org> pkgname=plexmediaserver pkgver=0.9.5.3.275 pkgrel=2 pkgdesc="Plex Media Server for Linux" url="http://www.plexapp.com" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') license=('closed') depends=('avahi' 'rsync') replace=('plex') backup=("etc/conf.d/$pkgname") install="$pkgname.install" if [ "$CARCH" = "i686" ]; then _arch='i386' md5sums=('b74084ad5323d159fd493fdcfb0c6e11') elif [ "$CARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then _arch='amd64' md5sums=('d99becb20972ea993ca38620e1987d51') depends+=('lib32-libxml2' 'lib32-sqlite3' 'lib32-boost-libs' 'lib32-curl') fi source=("$url/repo/pool/main/p/${pkgname}/${pkgname}_${pkgver}-dff0bd5_${_arch}.deb" "$pkgname.conf.d" "$pkgname.rc.d") md5sums+=('cb0b32d853f2c8b760e62b391196a881' '6c56f99a450b64af22abfd549d32eb38') build() { ar -xv ${pkgname}_${pkgver}-dff0bd5_${_arch}.deb || return 1 tar -zxf data.tar.gz || return 1 } package(){ mkdir -p $pkgdir/usr/lib/plexmediaserver mkdir -p $pkgdir/etc/rc.d cp -r usr/lib/plexmediaserver/* $pkgdir/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/ install -D -m644 plexmediaserver.conf.d $pkgdir/etc/conf.d/plexmediaserver install -D -m755 plexmediaserver.rc.d $pkgdir/etc/rc.d/plexmediaserver }

I tried it last night with my roku and android phone both played without issue. I just installed the 0.9.5.2 package and then downloaded and extracted the .deb file and rsync'd it over the 0.9.5.2 install directory.

oh, additional info: avahi is not necessary anymore for netatalk etc. With avahi and netatalk running on the server im running into problems. Is avahi as dependency for plex still needed?

Is there anybody with a chance to test the 0.9.5.3 package? http://www.plexapp.com/repo/pool/main/p/plexmediaserver/plexmediaserver_0.9.5.3.268-dff0bd5_amd64.deb I'm on a business trip till end of next week (and then i will test my new iPad first :D).

looks like 0.9.5.3 isn't finished yet for ubuntu. Two versions appear in distro repo.

This shouldn't be too difficult to update for 0.9.5.3. Only the URL and md5 hashes in the PKGBUILD would need to be modified. I can look into doing it this weekend possibly.

Are all those lib32 dependencies actually needed? I tested installing Plex in a temporary directory on a 64 bit Arch install. It ran perfectly with none of the 32 bit libraries installed. (Tested from scratch, adding a library of media then playing on a client on another machine).

The redirection to the log file in the rc.d file should be ">>" rather than just ">" so it doesn't overwrite the log file on every restart. Thanks.

Isn't "/etc/conf.d/plexmediaserver" a better spot for "/etc/plexmediaserver.conf"? Also, would you be able to add a variable to plexmediaserver.conf to set the user to run plex as?

Is this able to be built for the arm arch? after hacking the PKGBUILD to download the i686.deb, I get the following: ==> Tidying install... -> Purging other files... -> Compressing man and info pages... -> Stripping unneeded symbols from binaries and libraries... /usr/bin/strip: Unable to recognise the format of the input file `./usr/lib/plexmediaserver/libboost_program_options.so.1.47.0' ==> ERROR: An unknown error has occurred. Exiting...