# Preface

Jellyfin It is an open source media library. Designed to replace Plex and Emby, after you import various media videos into its database, you can watch all media resources stored on it across platforms.

Jellyfin also provides DLNA and Chromecast support, you can use various large-screen devices to directly search for this signal source and play directly. And like Plex and Emby, metadata can be captured so you can categorize media into rich multimedia experiences.

If you just want to test it, Jellyfin officially built a [Test Server], you can use the demo account to log in to experience it.

# Deployment Tutorial

If the test is not bad, then I will teach you how to build Jellyfin yourself.

Preparation

First confirm whether your account is root authority, if not, use the su command to switch to the root account, and then use sudo whoami to confirm whether it is the root account.

sudo whoami
root

Install dependencies

Copy and paste the following commands to install dependencies without which the Jellyfin service cannot be installed.

sudo apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates gnupg2 curl git -y

Import keys and repositories

jellyfin does not push the source code in the public repository, we need to use the key to access their private repository to install, use the following code to add the key.

wget -O - https://repo.jellyfin.org/jellyfin_team.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -

If everything went well, you will get an OK back.

The next step is to add the repository, import jellyfin's private repository with the following command:

echo "deb [arch=$( dpkg --print-architecture )] https://repo.jellyfin.org/ubuntu focal main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jellyfin.list

Then update apt to recognize the addition:

sudo apt update

Install Jellyfin

It's very simple at this point, just use the following command to install jellyfin:

sudo apt install jellyfin

If prompted to install any dependencies, hit Y and press Enter to complete the installation.

After the progress bar finishes running, use the following command to confirm that jellyfin has been installed normally:

systemctl status jellyfin

If everything is fine, the output should be as follows:

default setting

At this point, your Jellyfin has been installed. Next, let’s initialize it. First, visit the following address to enter the webui interface:

http://127.0.0.1:8096

Select the corresponding parameters according to your actual situation.

Scraping the database

Because of the well-known reasons in China, if you need to use the scraping function normally, you need to modify the host, just paste the following code into the host folder of your system. Ubuntu is /etc/hosts.

52.84.18.58 api.themoviedb.org
52.84.18.75 api.themoviedb.org
52.84.18.87 api.themoviedb.org
52.84.18.78 api.themoviedb.org

Update and Uninstall

To update or uninstall Jellyfin, use the following commands. renew

sudo apt update

Uninstall

sudo autoremove install jellyfin --purge -y