That's right ladies and gentleman a 64bit PlexMediaServer for unRAID 6.0.

 

Upon doing some research I discovered that the 64bit package Plex ships for Ubuntu works well with Slackware 14.1.

 

I downloaded the 64bit Ubuntu package, and the 32bit unRAID package. I took the libraries and binaries from the 64bit Ubuntu package and put them in the unRAID package. That is the only thing I modified or replaced in the unRAID package. Once that was complete I ran a makepkg and this new package was born.

 

To install put in /boot/extra or run installpkg.

 

It comes with absolutely no warranty. I will not do this for PlexPass releases as that would be wrong. Plex is a great product and a great company and they deserve our support.

 

http://superhero.org/PlexMediaServer-0.9.8.18.290-11b7fdd-unRAID-x86_64.txz

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Awesome!  This and CrashPlan are the only plugins I require.  Looking forward to testing this out!

 

Thanks!

THANKS!!

Nice work needo!

hahaha OMG that is friggin' awesome. 

 

Is it safe to assume you've posted this to the plex forum for the plex-devs to see?  I'll have no problem running yours, but the sooner there is a Plex Inc. blessed version the better for everyone.  Especially if there any as yet discovered edge case issues you haven't found yet [just sayin' they can occur].

 

Crickey I didn't think I'd be able to start using V6 so soon because I depend on plex so much. 

 

Thanks again!!!

hahaha OMG that is friggin' awesome. 

 

Is it safe to assume you've posted this to the plex forum for the plex-devs to see?  I'll have no problem running yours, but the sooner there is a Plex Inc. blessed version the better for everyone.  Especially if there any as yet discovered edge case issues you haven't found yet [just sayin' they can occur].

 

Crickey I didn't think I'd be able to start using V6 so soon because I depend on plex so much. 

 

Thanks again!!!

 

Yes I also posted this to the Plex forums. I yearn for a Plex Inc. released/supported version. This is meant mainly as a stopgap because who knows how long it will take Plex Inc. to update their build environment.

oh and PS, there is a plexpass preview version 0.9.9 ... if someone else can't get at it before I get home, I'll grab it for you and pass it along.

 

Thanks thanks thanks

Yes I also posted this to the Plex forums. I yearn for a Plex Inc. released/supported version. This is meant mainly as a stopgap because who knows how long it will take Plex Inc. to update their build environment.

 

Well if it is as simple as you described then they have no excuse now do they

oh and PS, there is a plexpass preview version 0.9.9 ... if someone else can't get at it before I get home, I'll grab it for you and pass it along.

 

Thanks thanks thanks

 

i think he doesn't want to post a paid version of the software. 

oh and PS, there is a plexpass preview version 0.9.9 ... if someone else can't get at it before I get home, I'll grab it for you and pass it along.

 

Thanks thanks thanks

 

I am a Lifetime PlexPass member. I am not comfortable with making a package of the Preview Releases as that is one of the benefits of purchasing a PlexPass. It would be giving their hard work away for free.

Yeah I hear ya.  I bought my lifetime too.  I'll just start bugging the plex folks, or maybe I'll try to make it myself (I too would not go posting it on the boards though).

 

Then again looking at the change log the only thing that applies to me would probably be "?Fixes for media index files for Roku" and I don't recall that being an issue for me anyway.  So I can probably live with the public version for now.

Yeah I hear ya.  I bought my lifetime too.  I'll just start bugging the plex folks, or maybe I'll try to make it myself (I too would not go posting it on the boards though).

 

That is why I posted what I did. Not only for the transparency of software being installed on our valuable NAS but in case someone wanted to make a personal version of a preview release.

I could be wrong, but I believe PlexPass versions of PMS do a check on your Plex credentials to see if you're a PlexPass subscriber.  Perhaps that's only for PlexPass-only features?

I could be wrong, but I believe PlexPass versions of PMS do a check on your Plex credentials to see if you're a PlexPass subscriber.  Perhaps that's only for PlexPass-only features?

 

That's only for PlexPass-only features.

Roger that.  Good on you for not offering PlexPass versions then.  High five to another lifetime member.

6.0 installed and Plex-64 up and running.  Great work my friend.  And [hangs head] I wasn't even running the latest PlexPass version anyway because it seems the PMS Updater wasn't really working right so I didn't know there was even a new version.  DERP!!!

From another PlexPass lifetime member, I just wanted to say great work.  I'd like to move all my plugins to a VM with v6, but this will work nicely in the meantime.

 

To jumperalex, yes, I also noticed the Plex Updater plugin is broken ATM.  Seems it's not parsing version numbers correctly.  It doesn't recognize that 0.9.9.0 is newer than 0.9.8.18.  I manually updated to 0.9.9.0 a few days ago and the updater plugin keeps telling me there's a "new version 0.9.8.18".

Yeah I usually keep an eye on the plex forums for announcements but missed it.  Well like I said, nothing that impacts me much at the moment so no harm no foul.

Yes he does not know how to get it to work with the way they made plex pass downloads now. He is hesitant on trying to figure out because of talk about an auto updated being possibly built into plex.

 

From another PlexPass lifetime member, I just wanted to say great work.  I'd like to move all my plugins to a VM with v6, but this will work nicely in the meantime.

 

To jumperalex, yes, I also noticed the Plex Updater plugin is broken ATM.  Seems it's not parsing version numbers correctly.  It doesn't recognize that 0.9.9.0 is newer than 0.9.8.18.  I manually updated to 0.9.9.0 a few days ago and the updater plugin keeps telling me there's a "new version 0.9.8.18".

Yes that makes sense of course.

Yes he does not know how to get it to work with the way they made plex pass downloads now. He is hesitant on trying to figure out because of talk about an auto updated being possibly built into plex.

 

From another PlexPass lifetime member, I just wanted to say great work.  I'd like to move all my plugins to a VM with v6, but this will work nicely in the meantime.

 

To jumperalex, yes, I also noticed the Plex Updater plugin is broken ATM.  Seems it's not parsing version numbers correctly.  It doesn't recognize that 0.9.9.0 is newer than 0.9.8.18.  I manually updated to 0.9.9.0 a few days ago and the updater plugin keeps telling me there's a "new version 0.9.8.18".

 

 

He has it updated.  You should just be able to hit "update plugin"

 

https://forums.plex.tv/index.php/topic/51827-unraid-update-plugin/page-4

Yes he does not know how to get it to work with the way they made plex pass downloads now. He is hesitant on trying to figure out because of talk about an auto updated being possibly built into plex.

 

From another PlexPass lifetime member, I just wanted to say great work.  I'd like to move all my plugins to a VM with v6, but this will work nicely in the meantime.

 

To jumperalex, yes, I also noticed the Plex Updater plugin is broken ATM.  Seems it's not parsing version numbers correctly.  It doesn't recognize that 0.9.9.0 is newer than 0.9.8.18.  I manually updated to 0.9.9.0 a few days ago and the updater plugin keeps telling me there's a "new version 0.9.8.18".

 

 

He has it updated.  You should just be able to hit "update plugin"

 

https://forums.plex.tv/index.php/topic/51827-unraid-update-plugin/page-4

 

Please note this update plugin does not work with 64bit unRAID as it only downloads the 32bit versions of Plex that Plex releases.

I am a linux noob, so I figured out how to use Needo's method and create a 64-bit unRaid PlexPass Server build using 7-Zip on Windows. 

No linux commands or command line required!

 

Note: Use at your own risk, these instructions work for me with no issues, YMMV.

 

1. Download and install 7-Zip on your Windows computer:  www.7-zip.org

Note: I have “Integrate 7-Zip to shell context menu” option in 7-Zip selected so I can just right-click a file or folder to easily extract or compress.

2. Download unRaid Plexpass release (there is currently only a 32-bit version available)

3. Download Ubuntu Plexpass 64-bit release

4. Use 7-Zip to extract both Plex archives, this will give you two .tar files

5. Use 7-Zip to extract both .tar files, making sure the files are unpacked to separate folders so they don’t overwrite each other

6. In the extracted unRaid folder, navigate to \usr\local and delete the “plexmediaserver” folder

7. In the Ubuntu folder, navigate to \usr\lib and copy the ““plexmediaserver” folder

8. In the unRaid folder, navigate to \usr\local and paste the “plexmediaserver” folder you copied from Ubuntu folder

9. Navigate to the top level of the unRaid folder, and highlight all 4 folders (boot, etc, install, usr) and right-click and under 7-Zip choose “Add to archive”

10. Under Archive format, select “tar” and press OK

11. Select the .tar file you just created, right-click and under 7-Zip choose “Add to archive”

12. Under Archive format, select “xz” and press OK

13. Rename the new file with a “.txz” file extension, and add “-x86_64” to the file name to indicate it is now a 64-bit build: "PlexMediaServer-0.9.9.2.374-aa23a69-unRAID-x86_64.txz"

14. Install the 64-bit unRaid Plex package normally on your unRaid 6-beta server (copy to /boot/extra folder on flash device and either installpkg or reboot)

Assuming this works...  Thank you very much!  I clearly was trying too hard!

 

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