2mo ago

Jellyfin assistance

Hello, I yet again come, hat in hand, for assistance from those wiser in the ways of the Linux. I’m having a bit of an issue downloading Jellyfin on my ElementaryOS laptop. I’ve tried all the guide on the first few pages of ddg only to receive errors after entering the comman “ sudo apt-get update “. I get ERR:3 https//repo.jellyfin.org/debian circle Release 404 Not found.

If someone can point me the way I’d be most appreciative

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Seems like you followed some random AI generated guide like this one:
https://www.ipv6.rs/tutorial/Elementary_OS_Latest/Jellyfin/
Whenever you're downloading a Linux (or any) package, always try to look for the official documentation, like here:
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/installation/linux#debian--ubuntu-and-derivatives
Where it will tell you to install Jellyfin on a Debian/Ubuntu based system is simply:
curl https://repo.jellyfin.org/install-debuntu.sh | sudo bash
and it also tells you that if you don't have curl already installed, either install it first or instead run:
wget -O- https://repo.jellyfin.org/install-debuntu.sh | sudo bash
which is their official installer.
If you want to undo what you did before installing (assuming you followed the bad guide linked above), just remove the file it created here first:
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/jellyfin.list
- I just wanted to add a small follow up comment because I remember being young and copy-pasting commands into Linux and eventually getting really frustrated. Therefore, he's a (brief) explanation of the commands:
  curl is just an open source tool for making Web requests from the command line. It's a great tool to have in general.
  https://repo.jellyfin.org/install-debuntu.sh the URL of a shell script from repo.jellyfin.org (Jellyfin's official website)
  What is a shell script? It's a script that runs a whole bunch of commands by itself, so you don't have to copy-paste them from the internet. Basically the official Jellyfin people in this case made a file with all of the commands the computer needs to run to install the package. This is great because it means the people who made Jellyfin tested these commands and they're responsible for keeping it up to date if anything changes.
  | bash The 'pipe' or | symbol in Linux is a cool Unix philosophy of 'connecting' programs together. You run one program, and tell it to pass the results to another program. In this case, you're telling curl to download the script at https://repo.jellyfin.org/install-debuntu.sh and then passing that file to bash (which is the shell program in the terminal that runs commands) and to run it as sudo or 'super-user'.
  Hope this was helpful. The last thing you should know is the command you probably copy-pasted before made you add a source to the /etc/apt/sources files, which are basically just a list of sources for apt, the package manager to download from, and since the command was wrong or outdated, apt is complaining that the Jellyfin source was not found.
  
  GOOD FOLLOW UP!!
  I was about to shit a brick that you went from "go to the official trusted source" to "just trust me: curl [x] | sudo bash"
  https://youtu.be/dT7X2IxBDjc
  
  The one thing I'd add is to say don't run a shell script from the Internet unless you're damn sure that (a) you trust the entity providing it, and (b) you're downloading via https and haven't typo'd the URL.
- Well now I feel really dumb cause that is the exact guide I was using. Oh well, live and learn I guess. Thank you very much for educating me
Is there a reason you’re not using Docker?
- This is the question and answer
  
  To be completely honest, I installed Jellyfin "bare-metal" and have been using it that way since after attempting to skim the Docker documentation and failing to understand how Docker works.
- I was so ill prepared I didn’t even know what docker was. I definitely jumped the gun on the media server lol. Eh, blessing in disguise since I’m now getting such info I guess. Thank y’all for being kind to an ignoramus
  
  Jumping in over your head is how you learn. Just be patient!
  
  So, Jellyfin is one of those apps where the Docker documentation is really lacking. I'm gonna give you my docker-compose.yml file in case it helps:
  yml
  
  services: jellyfin: image: jellyfin/jellyfin user: 0:0 restart: 'unless-stopped' ports: - '8096:8096' environment: #- JELLYFIN_CACHE_DIR=/var/cache/jellyfin #- JELLYFIN_CONFIG_DIR=/etc/jellyfin - JELLYFIN_DATA_DIR=/var/lib/jellyfin - JELLYFIN_LOG_DIR=/var/log/jellyfin volumes: - ./config:/config - ./cache:/cache - ./data:/var/lib/jellyfin - ./log:/var/log/jellyfin - /data/jellyfin:/data/jellyfin devices: - /dev/dri
  For me /data/ is my RAID array, which is why my jellyfin data directory is there. Everything else goes in the same directory as the compose file. My system has a graphics card that does transcoding (Arc A380), so I have /dev/dri under devices.
  You should learn a lot about Docker Compose, because it will help you tremendously. I use Jellyfin behind an Nginx Proxy Manager reverse proxy. I'd highly recommend it. Here's my compose file for that:
  yml
  
  services: app: image: 'jc21/nginx-proxy-manager:latest' restart: unless-stopped network_mode: "host" #ports: # - '80:80' # - '81:81' # - '443:443' volumes: - ./data:/data - ./letsencrypt:/etc/letsencrypt
  Running in "host" mode is important, instead of just forwarding ports, because it lets you forward things to localhost, like pointing https://media/.[mydomain]/ to http://127.0.0.1:8096/ for Jellyfin.
  Anyway, best of luck to you, and I hope that helps!
- Op please don't ignore the above.
  Learn docker once and you'll be able to install almost anything, rather than having to learn every individual app and how it installs on specific operating systems.
It seems to have picked up "circle" as the distro. You'll need to replace that with the matching Ubuntu or Debian version of what this version of ElementaryOS is.
- Find out by running lsb_release -c in the terminal.
  
  I entered that and got a result of
  No LSB modules are available Codename: circe
- I’m sorry I’m a super noob but I think I see where I have to fix it. I just don’t know what version of Ubuntu is Elementary 8.0 is. I found a guide that says Ubuntu 20.04(focal) is 6.1(jolnir)
Find jellyfin related file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d, edit it as root and try replacing „circle” with „bookworm”. After that apt update and retry. If it doesn’t work you can also try replacing it with „noble” but the you might also need to replace debian -> ubuntu, but that’s just my guess
Are you trying to install jellyfin server or client?
- Jellyfin server
  
  Install docker, grab the official docker compose file, then docker compose up -d.
  Details: Look up how to install docker on elementary (I guess it's sudo apt install docker), than you don't have to care about the distro after that, docker works the same way everywhere. You can find countless tutorials on this, and they should work

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