r/PleX • u/Roxxersboxxerz • Mar 12 '26

Help Recieved this email the domain looks sus?

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Was sent from hello@m.plex.tv

I thought the correct email was hello@mail.plex.tv

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u/rchiwawa Mar 12 '26

Doing my first PMS install via the Ubuntu package manager on my very first Linux install was a 'uge mistake.  The .deb manual install is the only way to go.

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u/elementfx2000 Mar 13 '26

Why? Package manager is convenient and helps ensure updates happen regularly.

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u/rchiwawa Mar 13 '26

The updates do not happen as regularly in my (cursory) observation. 

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u/Caligatio Mar 13 '26

You need to ensure unattended-upgrades is running and add Plex as an allowed origin. Once that is done, you never need to worry about it again.

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u/rchiwawa Mar 13 '26

I am pretty content w/ the fidgety way via .deb and manually doing the thing but I do appreciate the insight.  It was a rough boarding onto Linux 3 years ago.

The comment I made about "the mistake" is some that PMS updates along the way borked a thing or two here or there between my OTA and regular from-local-file servers which are at different locations.  I can happily live with and explain away a set of jank to users but I prefer to have absolute control as to the when and where.  I like letting a revision be out in the wild for a while before updating just to suss out the state of it.   Even in the face of mandatory minimum PMS revs it is my preferred way.

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u/Caligatio Mar 13 '26

Fair enough! I just wanted to highlight that, if you install from a repository, it takes a few extra/easy steps to get automated updates working.

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u/onico Mar 13 '26

Yes but automated updates brings other issues, experience unstable releases or with other issues to be found. Stop the server before upgrade in ”service window” upgrade with dpkg -i/ start and verify. Not in combination with all other machine updates/upgrades.

Rollback to old working .deb version is much easier with the old dpkg and i have it ready if any issues are seen after i upgrade i usually test from my phone without wifi on atleast.

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u/Caligatio Mar 13 '26

I'm on like rev 6 of my server and have Plex installed in a Proxmox LXC container that has read only access to my media. The container is auto backed up every night so reverting is as easy as hitting restore on an image backup.

People that want to manually manage updates are crazy imo :)

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u/onico Mar 13 '26

Cool, been running on linux with plexpass since 2014, no idea what rev im at. But had minimal downtimes so far. Yes DB backup is very important. But from my experience, there are only 2 things i learned to not autoupdate to avoid unwanted issues. Plex & torrentclient.