Jellyfin for Arch Linux

[mcarlton00]

jellyfin-git likely targets master, which is what we refer to as "unstable". Very not recommended for general use. However it's worth noting that the Jellyfin team has no input into the arch packages. We don't publish them ourselves.

More likely, you don't want to use the aur at all. The server and web interface have been included in the official arch "Extras" repo, so you should just need to install from there. From a quick search, it looks like yay -S jellyfin-server jellyfin-web jellyfin-ffmpeg will get you what you want.

[croswen]

Hmm still kinda confusing. While I thank you for just straight up telling me which packages I need, I already installed jellyfin-media-player. The first guy who was responding to me said it was just a client for the server. Would that mean I exclude jellyfin-server and just install jellyfin-web and jellyfin-ffmpeg? Again, thanks for taking the time to search around. Appreciate it.

[mcarlton00]

jellyfin-media-player and jellyfin-server are mutually exclusive things. They have no direct relation to each other.

Assuming you are trying to create a jellyfin server, and not just connect to an existing one:

1. Install jellyfin-server, jellyfin-web, and jellyfin-ffmpeg
2. Start the jellyfin process. Haven't done this on arch, but it should be something like systemctl start jellyfin. If you want to do it automatically on system boot, you'd also need to do systemctl enable jellyfin.
3. Connect to the server. This would be the ip address of your device you've installed the server to. Open a web browser and go to http://your-ip-address:8096
4. You should be guided through the installation wizard from here.

Now if you already have a jellyfin server running somewhere and you want to install a client to this device, you would install jellyfin-media-player and then configure it to point to your existing server. Without a server already running somewhere the client is useless. This is also not strictly required, as your web browser will act as a client. jellyfin-media-player is basically the same interface as the web client, but it has better codec support and will be less likely to require transcoding for some media. This may or may not be a factor for you once you get things working.

[croswen]

Man I cant thank you enough for all the time you took to reply. I can handle setting up the server and everything by myself, it's just that the packages on the Arch repositories confused the crap out of me and the lack of documentation for Arch was not helpful at all. Again, thanks for taking the time. Also one thing to note in post #11 on this thread, you don't need to use yay to install those packages. They are in the official Extra repository for Arch.

[mcarlton00]

Correct. But my fingers are dumb and only have enough muscle memory for one thing, so I just always use yay for everything instead of switching to pacman.