Update Plex Media Server on Ubuntu 14.04

The Goal

To upgrade Plex Media Server (PMS) version on Ubuntu 14.04.

Whenever a new update for PMS is available you will see the following notification appear when you login to the Plex web app:

Unfortunately you cannot update PMS on Ubuntu 14.04 seamlessly from within the web app, it is a manual process. Fortunately the steps below detail the process on how successfully upgrade PMS.

The Process

1. Go to the Plex download page, the link is here.

2. Scroll down the page and select Linux as the OS and then click on CHOOSE DISTRIBUTION as highlighted in the image below:

3. In the list that appears right-click over your OS version, mine was Ubuntu 64-bit (10.04 Lucid or newer) per the image below:

Then click on the OS version and click on Copy link address, in my case this link was:

https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-media-server/1.3.3.3148-b38628e/plexmediaserver_1.3.3.3148-b38628e_amd64.deb

4. Next, ssh onto your Ubuntu server and then run wget followed by the link for the Plex software you obtained in the previous step:

wget https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-media-server/1.3.3.3148-b38628e/plexmediaserver_1.3.3.3148-b38628e_amd64.deb

This will download the package to your current location.

5. Then run:

sudo dpkg -i plexmediaserver_1.3.3.3148-b38628e_amd64.deb

Plex has now been upgraded.

6. Remove the package you downloaded in step 4 above:

sudo rm plexmediaserver_1.3.3.3148-b38628e_amd64.deb

You can now continue watching your movies!