Turn Pear OS 8 into a multimedia server using Plex Media Server

Plex Media Server (PMS) is a powerful tool to turn our Linux into a multimedia server which provides centralized way to serve your home. This tutorial is going to show you how to turn Pear OS 8 into a multimedia server using Plex Media Server. You can then play the movie or music from other connected devices such as Android, SONY Bravia TV, SONY Home Theater and so on. 

First, we need to download the latest PMS package from the official website. 

• PMS 32 bit DEB
• PMS 64bit DEB

Once downloaded, you can start installing the package. You can simply right click the DEB package and select Open with GDebi Package Installer or you can execute this command to install.

sudo dpkg -i plexmediaserver_0.9.8.6.175-88ffbb2_amd64.deb

Change the package name with your own. 

dhani@dhani-pearos8:~/Downloads/Deb$ sudo dpkg -i plexmediaserver_0.9.8.6.175-88ffbb2_i386.deb
[sudo] password for dhani:
Selecting previously unselected package plexmediaserver.
(Reading database ... 176306 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking plexmediaserver (from plexmediaserver_0.9.8.6.175-88ffbb2_i386.deb) ...
Setting up plexmediaserver (0.9.8.6.175-88ffbb2) ...
OK
plexmediaserver start/running, process 11531
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot

Next, start plexmediaserver service. Still in Terminal, execute this command

sudo service plexmediaserver start

Now open Google Chrome or any other web browser and type this address to open the PMS web management console

http://192.168.1.100:32400/manage

Change the IP address with your IP address. Or simply press Plex Media Manager on Launchpad.