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Weston Nielson edited this page Sep 6, 2016 · 8 revisions

The Plex Media Server uses paths for a variety of environmental variables that vary from platform to platform. This page contains lists of these paths. If you're running a system that isn't listed below, please add it!

Ubuntu

Variable Path
PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support
XDG_CACHE_HOME /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Cache/
PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_HOME /usr/lib/plexmediaserver
FFMPEG_EXTERNAL_LIBS /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Codecs/6209f91-1114-linux-ubuntu-x86_64/
HOME /var/lib/plexmediaserver
XDG_DATA_HOME /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/
PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_TMPDIR /tmp
LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/lib/plexmediaserver

OS X

Variable Path
PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR
XDG_CACHE_HOME ~/Library/Caches/PlexMediaServer/
PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_HOME
FFMPEG_EXTERNAL_LIBS ~/Library/Application\ Support/Plex\ Media\ Server/Codecs/6209f91-1114-darwin-x86_64/
HOME
XDG_DATA_HOME /Applications/Plex Media Server.app/Contents/Resources/
PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_TMPDIR
LD_LIBRARY_PATH
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