Beta AppCasts

From Plex

There is currently no Beta's available from Plex

All beta's are provided via PlexPass accessible forums.

Go here: http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/forum/114-plexpass-members-only/ (requires PlexPass)

~~Remember that beta releases can be scary. If you don't understand the instructions, you may not want to be using beta software.~~

Contents

1 Windows Beta AppCast

2 Mac Beta AppCast

3 Linux

3.1 Ubuntu

3.2 RPM Repo (Fedora/CentOS)

3.3 Others

Windows Beta AppCast

Open regedit and navigate here to Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Plex, Inc.\Plex Media Server
Add a REG_SZ named "AppCastUrl" with value: https://www.plexapp.com/appcast/win-beta/en-US/pms.xml
Restart the media server.

Mac Beta AppCast

Open up Terminal.
Execute: defaults write com.plexapp.plexmediaserver AppCastUrl https://www.plexapp.com/appcast/mac-beta/pms.xml
Restart the media server.

Linux

Ubuntu

For Ubuntu you add a second apt-get repository to get BETA versions.

Create /etc/apt/sources.list.d/plex-beta.list with the following contents:

deb http://www.plexapp.com/repo beta main

Run apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

RPM Repo (Fedora/CentOS)

If this is you first time using the official rpm repos from Plex run this first:

rpm --import http://plexapp.com/plex_pub_key.pub

Create /etc/yum.repos.d/plex-beta.repo with the following contents:

[PlexBetaRepo] name=PlexBetaRepo baseurl=http://plexapp.com/rpmrepo/beta/$basearch/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=1

Then run yum install plexmediaserver

Others

For the other distributions you need to download and install it manually, you can find the links on the download page in the wiki: http://wiki.plexapp.com/index.php/Downloads#Plex_Media_Server_.28PMS_-_standalone_server.29