{"id":88,"date":"2016-04-23T20:51:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T20:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pure-media.info\/?p=88"},"modified":"2017-04-06T03:52:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T03:52:02","slug":"automatically-update-plex-on-ubuntu-14-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pure-media.info\/index.php\/2016\/04\/23\/automatically-update-plex-on-ubuntu-14-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Automatically Update Plex on Ubuntu 14.04+"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"plex-updater\"<\/a><\/h3>\n

This guide will show you how to update plex automatically with the new versions that come out, plex pass versions included in the process.<\/h3>\n

First we need to download the script that will check for a new version of please and update it.<\/h3>\n

wget https:\/\/raw.githubusercontent.com\/mrworf\/plexupdate\/master\/plexupdate.sh<\/code><\/p>\n

New lets allow it to Execute<\/strong><\/p>\n

chmod +x plexupdate.sh<\/code><\/p>\n

 Configure the setting here<\/strong><\/p>\n

echo -e > ~\/.plexupdate 'EMAIL=<plex email account>nPASS=\"<plex password>\"nDOWNLOADDIR=\/' <\/code><\/p>\n

The automatic update script is all set now we just need to set a CRON to have it check at the desired interval this example I used Daily at midnight.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Option 1 (EASY) is using Webmin, you can see how to install it in my other post HERE<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Scheduled<\/a><\/p>\n

Option 2 (Moderate) CLI add Cron<\/strong><\/p>\n

cron -e<\/code><\/p>\n

Now add<\/strong><\/p>\n

@daily \/home\/username\/plexupdate.sh -a -d<\/code><\/p>\n

 CTRL+x to save and your all set<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now everyday at Midnight the server will check plex.tv to see if there is an update and if so update your plex.<\/strong><\/p>\n

My password is rejected even though correct<\/h2>\n

If you use certain characters, such as dollar sign, in your password, bash will interpret that as a reference to a variable. To resolve this, enclose your password with single quotes instead of the normal quotes.<\/p>\n

Ie, PASS=\"MyP4$$w0rD\"<\/code> will not work, but changing to it to PASS='MyP4$$w0rD'<\/code> will<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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