Installing Plex Media Server on Debian

Installing Plex Media Server on Debian is very striaght forward. 

Head over to the Plex Download website, at https://www.plex.tv/media-server-downloads/?cat=computer&plat=linux, and copy the download link for the Debain version for your CPU archtecture. For most users, that will be Intel/AMD 64-bit version.

Right-click on the version and copy the link. 

Over in your Debian server terminal session, use wget to download the files directly. 

As of 2025-05-09, the latest version of Plex Media Server is 1.41.6

wget https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-media-server-new/1.41.6.9685-d301f511a/debian/plexmediaserver_1.41.6.9685-d301f511a_amd64.deb

Next, we will install the package using dpkg:

sudo dpkg -i plexmediaserver_1.41.6.9685-d301f511a_amd64.deb

Set Plex Media Server to start on boot, and start the server:

#Reload the systemctl daemon
sudo systemctl daemon-reload

#Set Plex to start on boot
sudo systemctl enable plexmediaserver

#Start Plex
sudo systemctl start plexmediaserver

That's it! You can now open a broswer, and go to your Plex Server IP addrress, on port 32400, and start configuring the server. You will need a Plex account to continue. 

https://<your-server-ip>:32400/web