SOLVED: Plex 503

[oskrr1]

I just installed Amahi 7 with the live CD. Using the web interface on a remote computer, I installed the Plex server. I get a 503 error when I try to access the plex web interface from said remote computer. I have tried the both the plexms.hda and the <hda ip address>:32400/web/index.html...nothing (owncloud8 works from a remote computer through web interface). I scoured the forms and I believe that plex is not installing correctly. I am using the amahi dns but not the dhcp. Disclaimer, I am new to the linux environment.

I did a yum update. I have reinstalled amahi 7 from scratch. The amahi web interface tells me that plex is installed, but in the servers tap, the indicator is red and if I click "restart" or "start", nothing happens. I have uninstalled via the web interface, rebooted, and installed plex via the web interface several times. Nothing. The app install log returns no errors--it simply says that plex was installed.

When I tried to do a

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yum reinstall amahi-plex

The program replied that amahi-plex is available but not installed. So I tried

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yum install amahi-plex

but it tells me that no presto metadata is available for amahi, and then powers on only to time out multiple links (though i'm pretty sure it is the same link every time) and it says no more mirrors available.

Help. Please and thank you.

[bigfoot65]

Try this as root user:

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yum clean metadata yum install amahi-plex

[oskrr1]

Thanks for the response! Clearing the metadata had no effect. It still returns the error:

http://f19.amahi.org/x86_64/amahi-plex-0.6-1.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 12] Timeout on http://f19.amahi.org/x86_64/amahi-plex-0.6-1.x86_64.rpm: (28, 'Operation too slow. Less than 1000 bytes/sec transferred the last 30 seconds') Trying other mirror.

[oskrr1]

I'm stupid. I just realized that I am behind a firewall that scans downloads. All other downloads worked so I didn't even think about it. I am sure that is the problem. Can I do a yum install of amahi-plex but direct it to the rpm file on a USB drive?

[oskrr1]

Ok. I figured it out. In case any other linux newbies have the same problem and find this thread in a Google search, here is what I did. I was behind a firewall that could not be bypassed. With another computer, download the rpm file to a usb drive formatted in FAT.

Figure out what the drive is called in order to mount it.

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sudo fdisk -l

Your disk (called a partition in Linux) will be something like: /dev/sdb1. Remember what it's called.

Create a new directory in /media so you can mount the drive onto the filesystem:

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sudo mkdir /media/usb

Mount the usb drive

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sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usb

Now you can see the usb drive. Look inside to verify the rpm you wish to install is there.

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cd /media/usb

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dir

now install the file. ***is name of file. in my case, it was amahi-plex-0.6-1.x86_64.rpm

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yum install /media/usb/***

You should now be good. Just unmount the USB and you are done.

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sudo umount /media/usb

[bigfoot65]

Good to know. This might be something that should be documented in the wiki. Do you have the time to help us out and add it?

[oskrr1]

Wish I had the time to help out. I tried to make my solution as complete as possible in case someone else who has time sees a need to copy it over.

You all are doing great work. Happy to pay for Plex to help fund the community.