How to Update Plex Media Server on Ubuntu

Here’s how to update Plex on a server running Ubuntu.


  • Find the URL for the latest Plex Media Server package here.
  • SSH into your server.
  • Run the following command to download the latest package.
(For the following steps, make sure you replace the URLs and packages with the latest release.)

wget https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-media-server/0.9.12.4.1192-9a47d21/plexmediaserver_0.9.12.4.1192-9a47d21_amd64.deb

  • Install the package with this command.

sudo dpkg -i plexmediaserver_0.9.12.4.1192 – 9a47d21_amd64.deb

  • Following installation, remove the installer file with this command.
rm plexmediaserver_0.9.12.4.1192 – 9a47d21_amd64.deb