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Getting Plex Installed…

can be installed on all kinds of devices – Linux, Mac and Windows machines as well as various NAS boxes (consumer devices as well as homespun efforts using tools such as and ). The download page at provides DEB and RPM packages, and there’s an official Docker image too (which we’ll look at later at running via ). The simple walkthrough below will get you started on Ubuntu, and the idea is the same for Fedora. There’s an unofficial AUR package for Arch-based distros too. It’s worth turning remote access off when prompted by the setup wizard. You can always turn it on again later. In addition, if the automagic port forwarding works out of the box there’s a chance your instance could be

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