failed to start jellyfin-server.service

[bac0n0]

I am running manjaro linux. I have installed jellyfin-server jellyfin-web jellyfin- everything i could from the arch repo. I followed the arch linux wiki for jelly fin. When I run systemctl start jellyfin-server it returns Failed to start jellyfin-server.service: unit jellyfin-server.service not found.

I have looked all over the place and cant figure out a solution. I am not wellread on linux so maybe I am missing something simple? I hope.

[TheDreadPirate]

Share the output of this command via privatebin.net.

Code:

sudo journalctl -u jellyfin -n 500 --no-pager

[bac0n0]

-- no entries -- as if its not installed at all. I tried the main repo and AUR repo for arch. Neither made a difference

[TheDreadPirate]

After you downloaded the jellyfin packages you used the package manager, pacman, to install them?

Can you go over what exactly you did?

[bac0n0]

I did try using the konsole and pacman for installation(pacman -S jellfyin-server/web), did not work and I removed them. I also used yay to to install the aur packages(yay -S jellyfin-server jellfin-web). That didnt work, so I removed them too(yay -Rns). I used the add/remove software app to reinstall jellyfin, still doesnt work.

[TheDreadPirate]

When you installed the packages, how were they not working? The service didn't start? Or it started but you couldn't access it?

[bac0n0]

Well I had just installed manjaro. Im not savy to linux. After installing the jellyfin packages I looked for the usual launcher which isn't to be found, or setup at localhost:8096 which isn't connecting, no surprise since the web package doesn't start with "systemctl start jellyfin-web". I only came here because the manjaro forum hasn't approved my account for whatever reason, and none of the documentation is helping me with the install process.

[TheDreadPirate]

Jellyfin-web doesn't run as its own service. There is only a "jellyfin" service that starts the server and make jellyfin-web available.

Code:

systemctl status jellyfin

If you are a linux beginner, any Arch based distro is a nightmare. You should be using a debian based distro. Between vastly larger user based, which leads to more documentation, and more conservative package updates debian and its derivatives are much more beginner friendly.

If you've just started, give Linux Mint a try.

[bac0n0]

Debian based packages were my preferred distros but they just couldn't get my hardware identified correctly, to many bugs. Manjaro for whatever reason is working flawless, except for the learning curve

[bac0n0]

systemctl status jellyfin  ✔
○ jellyfin.service - Jellyfin Media Server
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/jellyfin.service; disabled; preset: disabled)
Active: inactive (dead)

WOW systemctl start jellyfin worked!

I was able to access localhost webaddress and do a setup. What can I install for a gui?