CentOS 8 was unilaterally discontinued by RedHat in favor of CentOS Stream which is the upstream and current development branch of RHEL, thus marking the end of support for the CentOS Project. It is a no-cost RHEL build that was popular for handling production workloads and also as a desktop distribution.įor a long time, CentOS enjoyed a good run winning the adulation of thousands of Linux users until its sudden demise on December 31, 2021. We don’t want to go to all the trouble of running the upgrade if we’re already running the latest available version.CentOS ( Community ENTerprise Operating System) also widely referred to as CentOS Linux, is a free and open-source community-developed Linux distribution that was based on RHEL. Installing the upgradeįor this bit, I need to have a terminal session on the pi ( I usually use SSH to remote in). There is a good tutorial here about using the freeware sftp client Filezilla to transfer files to and from a pi via sftp.
I can now copy the file from my machine to the pi via SFTP. Now I want to select one of the ARM distros ( in my case v7) : Then click on the “Choose Distribution” button : On the download site, I need to select “Linux” when asked to choose a platform : I can click on the link and download the update file here.Īlternatively, you can get it directly from the Plex Downloads site. no monitor attached), so I’m usually accessing the Plex management web page on another machine when I see it’s upgrade time : Therefore, I follow the link provided in the documentation and ended up with these instructions.
If I happen to lose everything, re-installation and configuration would not be too onerous a task. In my case, I only really use my Pi for the plex server so the in-place upgrade does not present a huge risk. There is a big warning about in-place upgrades in the documentation This is not usually a requirement for upgrading Plex, but I thought I’d mention it here just in case.
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