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You need a plexpass to run it...there is a plexmediaserver-plexpass in aur but its not up to date. The current listing on the plex site is 0.9.7.28.33. There shouldn't be an out of date flag on this one.

Can we get an update to 0.9.8?

@kastor: Hmm.. it seems to be breaking on this command install -Dm755 ../start_pms "${pkgdir}"/opt/plexmediaserver/ Make sure the directory you are running makepkg from has these files (they should be there after untarring the tarball plexmediaserver.conf.d plexmediaserver.install plexmediaserver.service start_pms PKGBUILD

Any idea? ==> Continue building plexmediaserver ? [Y/n] ==> ----------------------------------------- ==> ==> Building and installing package ==> Making package: plexmediaserver 0.9.7.28.33-1 (Thu Jun 27 19:12:40 ART 2013) ==> Checking runtime dependencies... ==> Checking buildtime dependencies... ==> Retrieving sources... -> Found plexmediaserver_0.9.7.28.33-f80a4a2_amd64.deb -> Found plexmediaserver.conf.d -> Found plexmediaserver.service -> Found start_pms ==> Validating source files with md5sums... plexmediaserver_0.9.7.28.33-f80a4a2_amd64.deb ... Passed plexmediaserver.conf.d ... Passed plexmediaserver.service ... Passed start_pms ... Passed ==> Extracting sources... -> Extracting plexmediaserver_0.9.7.28.33-f80a4a2_amd64.deb with bsdtar ==> Removing existing pkg/ directory... ==> Starting build()... x - debian-binary x - control.tar.gz x - data.tar.gz ==> Entering fakeroot environment... ==> Starting package()... install: cannot stat '../start_pms': No such file or directory ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package(). Aborting... ==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build plexmediaserver. ==> Restart building plexmediaserver ? [y/N]

Make sure you are running the program with sudo systemctl start plexmediaserver There is an important LD_LIBRARY_PATH setting in /opt/plexmediaserver/start_pms that gets set/run. export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_HOME}"

I've realized what my problem is with adding Sections/Folders since upgrading. It appears that the Plex Media Scanner is not running. I tried to start it manually and received this message: "./Plex Media Scanner: error while loading shared libraries: libboost_system.so.1.50.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" I'm not sure how to file this since libboost_system.so.1.50.0 exists in /opt/plexmediaserver, and everything in directory is chown'd to plex:plex. Any help would be great. Thanks

@ejstacey: Thanks for the input. You are right, I need to put some logic into the chown to make it faster on upgrades.

Well, since it was an upgrade it should have read the values in your /etc/conf.d/plexmediaserver and used that to chown the files. If you didn't have the plex user/group before, how was this an upgrade?

I had to manually add the plex user and group. I don't think the post_install() is actually succeeding in creating them (certainly not the plex user anyway).

FYI I did an upgrade and recieved: Stopping Plexmediaserver before starting... (1/1) upgrading plexmediaserver [##########################################################################################] 100% chown: invalid user: ‘plex’