Hello, I yet again come, hat in hand, for assistance from those wiser in the ways of the Linux. I’m having a bit of an issue downloading Jellyfin on my ElementaryOS laptop. I’ve tried all the guide on the first few pages of ddg only to receive errors after entering the comman “ sudo apt-get update “. I get ERR:3 https//repo.jellyfin.org/debian circle Release 404 Not found.

If someone can point me the way I’d be most appreciative

      • monovergent 🛠️@lemmy.ml
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        1 month ago

        To be completely honest, I installed Jellyfin “bare-metal” and have been using it that way since after attempting to skim the Docker documentation and failing to understand how Docker works.

        • GoldenQuetzal@lemmy.world
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          1 month ago

          My friend, i would like to introduce you to the wonders of Portainer. Go forth and watch a video on youtube and you’ll get it.

          • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
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            1 month ago

            Use Portainer if you don’t want anything to be portable. There are other issues too. Just use Docker Compose.

    • Kelp@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I was so ill prepared I didn’t even know what docker was. I definitely jumped the gun on the media server lol. Eh, blessing in disguise since I’m now getting such info I guess. Thank y’all for being kind to an ignoramus

  • nom_nom@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    Seems like you followed some random AI generated guide like this one:

    https://www.ipv6.rs/tutorial/Elementary_OS_Latest/Jellyfin/

    Whenever you’re downloading a Linux (or any) package, always try to look for the official documentation, like here:

    https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/installation/linux#debian--ubuntu-and-derivatives

    Where it will tell you to install Jellyfin on a Debian/Ubuntu based system is simply:

    curl https://repo.jellyfin.org/install-debuntu.sh | sudo bash

    and it also tells you that if you don’t have curl already installed, either install it first or instead run:

    wget -O- https://repo.jellyfin.org/install-debuntu.sh | sudo bash

    which is their official installer.

    If you want to undo what you did before installing (assuming you followed the bad guide linked above), just remove the file it created here first:

    /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jellyfin.list

    • nom_nom@lemmy.ml
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      1 month ago

      I just wanted to add a small follow up comment because I remember being young and copy-pasting commands into Linux and eventually getting really frustrated. Therefore, he’s a (brief) explanation of the commands:

      1. curl is just an open source tool for making Web requests from the command line. It’s a great tool to have in general.
      2. https://repo.jellyfin.org/install-debuntu.sh the URL of a shell script from repo.jellyfin.org (Jellyfin’s official website)

      What is a shell script? It’s a script that runs a whole bunch of commands by itself, so you don’t have to copy-paste them from the internet. Basically the official Jellyfin people in this case made a file with all of the commands the computer needs to run to install the package. This is great because it means the people who made Jellyfin tested these commands and they’re responsible for keeping it up to date if anything changes.

      | bash The ‘pipe’ or | symbol in Linux is a cool Unix philosophy of ‘connecting’ programs together. You run one program, and tell it to pass the results to another program. In this case, you’re telling curl to download the script at https://repo.jellyfin.org/install-debuntu.sh and then passing that file to bash (which is the shell program in the terminal that runs commands) and to run it as sudo or ‘super-user’.

      Hope this was helpful. The last thing you should know is the command you probably copy-pasted before made you add a source to the /etc/apt/sources files, which are basically just a list of sources for apt, the package manager to download from, and since the command was wrong or outdated, apt is complaining that the Jellyfin source was not found.

    • chingadera@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      How the fuck did you deduce that from the post above?

      I’m not doubting you at all, you’ve got the Linux aura, but please share so more people can hope to do this

      • Kelp@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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        1 month ago

        This dude is a wizard cause that was the exact “guide” I was using. I had to look over my shoulder for a sec lol

        • nom_nom@lemmy.ml
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          1 month ago

          Because, contrary to what it might seem like, we ALL start out this way using Linux. Everyone makes the same mistakes, so its easy to retrace the logic once you understand what the commands you used to copy-paste are doing. OP you’re clearly just making the switch and want to dive head-first into self-hosting as well as Linux, which will be a ton of fun, just try not to get discouraged as there is a lot to learn. Take it one step at a time, and try to understand the commands as there’s really not that many, and you re-use these in many scenarios.

          I see many people recommending Docker, which is great, but imho a little too early to dive in to if you haven’t experimented with Linux at all. Docker is just a container of Linux inside of Linux, so you’ll still need to use the command line, and it has its own set of tools. Just my two cents. Somebody else posted but this was the video that also made Linux ‘click’ for me:

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc4ROCJYbm0&t=296

          Don’t be afraid to break things and start over. Have fun :)

  • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
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    1 month ago

    It seems to have picked up “circle” as the distro. You’ll need to replace that with the matching Ubuntu or Debian version of what this version of ElementaryOS is.