Proof of concept snap for Plex media server
Plex makes it possible to enjoy all of your media, whether in your living room, the car, or on a boat in the South Pacific!
THIS SNAP IS NOT PUBLISHED IN THE STORE, BUT IF IT WERE THE FOLLOWING WOULD APPLY
Installing a snap package is the easiest thing in the world. To install this snap just enter the following command:
snap install plexmediaserver
That is it! The plexmediaserver is now installed and already running on the background. Start managing your media by point a webrowser at http://localhost:32400/manage
You can check this status of Plex with the following command:
systemctl status snap.plexmediaserver.plexmediaserver
A STORE ASSERTION CAN BE ADDED TO AUTOMATICALLY CONNECT removable-media
Snap are confined and present limited access to the host. By default, a snap does not have permission to access external drives. To fix this you need to enter an extra command:
sudo snap connect plexmediaserver:removable-media
After entering this command the plexmediaserver will be able to access any
data inside the /media/ directory (where external drives are usually mounted).
Using Ubuntu 16.04 or newer do the following:
sudo snap install snapcraft --classic
sudo snap install lxd
sudo lxd init # accepting the defaults when prompted is fine
git clone https://github.com/flexiondotorg/plexmediaserver.git
cd plexmediaserver
snapcraft cleanbuild
The plexmediaserver snap will be built in a clean LXD container running
Ubuntu 16.04 and depositied in the current working directory. That snap can
then be installed using:
sudo snap install plexmediaserver_1.10.1.4602-f54242b6b_amd64.snap --dangerous