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plex-media-server mit Homebrew Cask installieren
Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für plex-media-server in AI-Agent-Workflows.
Installation
Weitere Installationsbefehle
Überblick
Paketzusammenfassung
Home media server
Projektlinks
Befehle und Aliase
- Plex Media Scanner
Verlauf
Projektgeschichte und Nutzung
Plex Media Server is a cross-platform home-media server that catalogs personal media, obtains descriptive metadata, streams to Plex clients, and transcodes content when required by device capabilities or available bandwidth.
Projektgeschichte
Plex Media Server developed into a cross-platform home-media service managed primarily through the Plex Web App rather than a conventional server GUI. Its official documentation reflects a mature ecosystem of desktop, Linux, NAS, container, and embedded-device deployments.
The server organizes local media into libraries, matches files to catalog metadata, and serves compatible or transcoded streams to Plex clients. Account-backed discovery and remote access extend the local server model across the internet.
Adoptionsgeschichte
Plex Media Server is distributed for Windows, macOS, common Linux distributions, Docker, NVIDIA SHIELD, and numerous NAS platforms. This wide hardware range made dedicated home servers and NAS appliances common deployment targets.
Its client-server model supports playback through Plex applications on desktop, mobile, televisions, streaming boxes, and game consoles, with optional remote access outside the home network.
Wie es verwendet wird
Users install the server, sign in through a browser, name the server, create media libraries, and point those libraries at organized movie, television, music, photo, or home-video directories.
Clients discover and stream from the server on the local network. Remote Access enables off-network streaming, while the server may transcode media on demand when a client or connection cannot use the original format directly.
Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren
Plex Media Server is a prominent home-server package because it combines library scanning, metadata acquisition, client discovery, remote access, and real-time transcoding in a service that can run on anything from a desktop to a NAS.
Packagers and self-hosters care about its platform-specific data directories, service accounts, filesystem permissions, large metadata trees, hardware-transcoding requirements, and the distinction between the server package and Plex player applications.
Zeitleiste
- Plex Media Server 0.9.6.6: Official documentation records support for enabling syslog through a server configuration variable.
- 2019: The documented setup flow centered on the browser-based Plex Web App and account-backed Setup Wizard.
- 2020: Official Linux installation examples documented the 1.19 release line.
- 2026: Plex remains supported across Windows, macOS, Linux, NAS, Docker, and NVIDIA SHIELD deployments.
Related projects
- Plex Web App is the browser-based management and playback interface bundled with or connected to Plex Media Server.
- Plex player applications connect to the server on desktop, mobile, television, streaming-device, and game-console platforms.
Quellen
- https://support.plex.tv/articles/
- https://support.plex.tv/articles/200264746-quick-start-step-by-step-guides/
- https://support.plex.tv/articles/200288586-installation/
- https://support.plex.tv/articles/201105343-advanced-hidden-server-settings/
- https://support.plex.tv/articles/202915258-where-is-the-plex-media-server-data-directory-located/
Sicherheitslage
Noch keine Protected-Tool-Abdeckung gefunden
Für plex-media-server wurde kein passendes lokales Secret-Handling-Manifest gefunden. Paketmetadaten bleiben hier veröffentlicht, damit künftige Abdeckung eine stabile Paket-URL hat.
Installationsverhalten
- In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
- Es wurden keine Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten erfasst.
Empfohlene Prüfung
Prüfe vor unbeaufsichtigter Agent-Nutzung, ob das Tool Klartext-Credentials liest, Remote-Zustand schreibt, Artefakte veröffentlicht oder Plugins ausführt.
local files
Configuration and credential file locations
These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.
Configuration files
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
- Linux
$PLEX_HOME/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Preferences.xml/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Preferences.xml- macOS
~/Library/Preferences/com.plexapp.plexmediaserver.plist- Windows
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Plex, Inc.\Plex Media Server
Credential files
Credential-bearing paths to review before unattended agent runs.
- Linux
$PLEX_HOME/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Preferences.xml/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Preferences.xml- macOS
~/Library/Preferences/com.plexapp.plexmediaserver.plist- Windows
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Plex, Inc.\Plex Media Server
Executables
Installierte Executables
| Befehl | Art | Sichtbarkeit | Hinweis |
|---|---|---|---|
Plex Media Scanner | Binärdatei | Homebrew-Cask-Binärdatei | Plex Media Scanner |
Aktualität
Version und Aktualität
Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.
Seite generiert2026-11-04
Manager-Version1.43.5.11079,b3b13e506
Manager aktualisiert
lokale DatenOK
Upstreamnot checked
neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt
- InfoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.niedrig Konfidenz
- InfoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://www.plex.tv/none Konfidenz
Installationsmetadaten
Paketmetadaten
| Paketschlüssel | cask:plex-media-server |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.43.5.11079,b3b13e506 |
| Paketmanager | Homebrew Cask |
| Paketmanager-Seite | https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/plex-media-server |
| Homepage | https://www.plex.tv/ |
| Upstream-Dokumentation | https://www.plex.tv/ |
| Quellarchiv | https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-media-server-new/1.43.5.11079-b3b13e506/macos/PlexMediaServer-1.43.5.11079-b3b13e506-universal.zip |
| SHA-256 | 8ce69b4ca2ab80f6a04bf93621f61111b4605dc3b66883cd59edacc2458bc476 |
| Bottle | nicht erfasst |
| Homebrew post-install | nicht definiert |
| Dienst | keiner deklariert |
Registry-Fakten
Details aus der Quelldatenbank
| Source Database | Homebrew cask API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/cask |
| Full Token | plex-media-server |
| Names |
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| Artifacts | |
| Auto Updates | yes |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
Quellspur
Aus Repository-Daten generiert
Diese Seite wird von av-web aus dem privaten Paket-SQLite-Artefakt bereitgestellt, das scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py erstellt.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Verwendete Quellen
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- package relationship graph
- package version freshness
- package-page enrichment