Plex is a free piece of software that allows you to organize your movies, TV shows, music and photos in one beautiful interface and stream those media files on your PC, tablet, phone, TV, Roku, etc on the network or over the Internet. In this tutorial we will learn how To Install Plex Media Server on CentOS 7.
Prerequisites
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo’ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step by step installation Plex on a CentOS 7 server.
Install Plex Media Server on CentOS 7
Step 1. First let’s start by ensuring your system is up-to-date.
yum clean all yum -y update
Step 2. Installing Plex on CentOS 7.
Go to the Plex Downloads page and copy the installation link for CentOS. Use wget to download the installer via the copied link:
wget https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-media-server/1.14.1.5488-cc260c476/plexmediaserver-1.14.1.5488-cc260c476.x86_64.rpm sudo yum install plexmediaserver*.rpm
Then, start Plex Media Server and enable it to start on boot time by running the following command:
sudo systemctl enable plexmediaserver.service sudo systemctl start plexmediaserver.service
Step 3. Configure Plex.
Now, open a web browser and type the following address. Change the IP address with your CentOS 7 IP address:
http://[your-server-ip-address]:32400/web/
Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed Plex. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing Plex Media Server on CentOS 7 system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official Plex web site.