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?

  • @[email protected]
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    136 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
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          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.