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The Goal To install  Plex Media Server (PMS)  version on  Ubuntu 14.04 . The Process Thankfully the process is very straightforward - as things tend to be with Linux. Follow the steps below to install PMS. 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 update it in preparation for the PMS install: sudo apt-get update 5 . Then run wget followed by the link for the Plex software you obtained in step 3: wget ...

The Goal To setup and configure ssh key-based Authentication on Ubuntu 14.04  to provide more secure and convenient passwordless access to other Linux servers via ssh. This guide assumes that you already have the OpenSSH client installed on the source client and the OpenSSH server installed on the destination server and that both systems are Ubuntu 14.04. However, the process steps below apply to many different versions of Linux. The Process If you don't have the required software installed at either end follow the instructions below: To install the OpenSSH client run the command below on the client: sudo apt-get install openssh-client To install the OpenSSH server first update the system then perform the package install by running the command below : sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install openssh-server Now that you have the required software setup at either end we can proceed with the ssh keys setup. 1 . Firstly, on the client server generate the ssh key p...