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submitted 6 months ago by Hammerheart@programming.dev to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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[-] Kangie@lemmy.srcfiles.zip 14 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] AProfessional@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago
[-] Kangie@lemmy.srcfiles.zip -2 points 6 months ago

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

[-] AProfessional@lemmy.world 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.

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