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brew install --cask plex-media-serverlocal Homebrew cask metadata
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Installer plex-media-server avec Homebrew Cask
Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de plex-media-server pour les workflows d'agents IA.
installation
Commandes d'installation supplémentaires
aperçu
Résumé du paquet
Home media server
Liens du projet
Commandes et alias
- Plex Media Scanner
historique
Historique du projet et usages
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.
Historique du projet
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.
Historique d'adoption
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.
Modes d'utilisation
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.
Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent
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.
Chronologie
- 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.
Sources
- 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/
posture de sécurité
Aucune couverture d'outil protégé trouvée pour le moment
Aucun manifest local de gestion des secrets correspondant n'a été trouvé pour plex-media-server. Les métadonnées de paquet restent publiées ici afin que la couverture future dispose d'une URL stable.
Comportement d'installation
- Aucun hook post-install Homebrew n’est enregistré dans les métadonnées de formule.
- Aucune métadonnée de bottle Homebrew n’a été enregistrée.
Revue recommandée
Avant une utilisation sans surveillance par un agent, vérifiez si l'outil lit des identifiants en clair, écrit un état distant, publie des artefacts ou lance des plugins.
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
exécutables
Exécutables installés
| Commande | Type | Exposition | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
Plex Media Scanner | binaire | binaire de cask Homebrew | Plex Media Scanner |
fraîcheur
Version et fraîcheur
Ces signaux séparent l'âge de génération de la page, l'activité du gestionnaire de paquets et la comparaison avec les versions amont. Un retard de version n'est signalé que lorsqu'une URL de preuve et des versions comparables sont présentes.
page générée2026-11-04
version du gestionnaire1.43.5.11079,b3b13e506
gestionnaire mis à jour
données localesOK
amontnot checked
dernière version détectéenon détecté
- infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.confiance faible
- infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://www.plex.tv/confiance none
métadonnées d'installation
Métadonnées du paquet
| Clé du paquet | cask:plex-media-server |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.43.5.11079,b3b13e506 |
| Gestionnaire de paquets | Homebrew Cask |
| Page du gestionnaire de paquets | https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/plex-media-server |
| Page d'accueil | https://www.plex.tv/ |
| Docs amont | https://www.plex.tv/ |
| Archive source | 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 |
| Bouteille | non enregistré |
| post-install Homebrew | non défini |
| Service | aucun déclaré |
faits du registre
Détails de la base source
| 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 |
piste source
Généré depuis les données du dépôt
Cette page est servie par av-web depuis l'artéfact SQLite privé des paquets généré par scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Sources utilisées
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- package relationship graph
- package version freshness
- package-page enrichment