The Plex deb package ships with a source list file. If Plex media server isn’t running, you can start it with: sudo systemctl start plexmediaserver Enable Plex Repositoryīy enabling the official Plex repo, you can update Plex on Ubuntu with apt package manager. (Press q to take back control of terminal.) We can check its status with: systemctl status plexmediaserverĪs you can see, it’s running on my Ubuntu 18.04 system.

You can press the Tab key, which will autocomplete the filename. Note that when you type the following sudo dpkg -i plex sudo dpkg -i plexmediaserver_1.-21ab172de_b So run the following command to install the Plex deb package. On Debian based Linux distros (Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc), dpkg is the standard command-line tool to install deb packages.

For example, my Plex is downloaded to the Downloads directory under Home, so I run the following command. Once the Plex deb package is downloaded, cd to the download directory. If you are going to install Plex on a headless Ubuntu 18.04 server, then you can go to your browser’s download history, then copy the Plex download link and use wget to download Plex from command line like below.

Plex media server ubuntu 18