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Installing and using Jellyfin without root (self.linux)

submitted 6 months ago by Hammerheart to c/[email protected]

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I have a VPS, but no root access so I can't use apt, or even read a lot of the system files. I would like to get jellyfin (or any media server, really) running on it. Jellyfin has a portable installation option, so I followed the instructions in the docs to install it from the .tar.gz.

But it says I have to install ffmpeg-jellyfin, and I can't find a portable installation of that. My VPS already has ffmpeg installed on it. Will jellyfin work if I just point it to that instead? Or, how can I go about installing ffmpeg-jellyfin without root access?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If you don't have root is it really a VPS?

Anyway, unpack the binaries to ~/local/usr/bin and add that to your PATH.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

~/.local/bin is more typical

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't matter. Put it in ~/foo/bar/Baz for all the shell cares.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Of course. That path is just likely already there, and the prefix works for every thing else like desktop files, icons, services, etc. In this context whatever but its a reasonable default choice.