How to uninstall plex from ubuntu
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Try to force the removal with sudo aptitude -f purge plexmediaserver
If it doesn't work, try these commands:
sudo rm -f /etc/init.d/plexmediaserver
sudo dpkg --purge --force-all plexmediaserver
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Dave Wold
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Dave Wold almost 2 years
I am finding it impossible to completely remove plex from my Ubuntu system, i get the following error:
davewold@ubuntuhome:~$ sudo aptitude purge plexmediaserver [sudo] password for davewold: no talloc stackframe at ../source3/param/loadparm.c:4864, leaking memory Ignoring unknown parameter "announce version" The following packages will be REMOVED: libavahi-core7{u} libavahi-gobject0{u} plexmediaserver{p} 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 409 kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y (Reading database ... 204286 files and directories currently installed.) Removing libavahi-core7:amd64 (0.6.31-4ubuntu1) ... Removing libavahi-gobject0:amd64 (0.6.31-4ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6.6) ... (Reading database ... 204272 files and directories currently installed.) Removing plexmediaserver (0.9.11.7.803-87d0708-debian) ... Plex Media Server is not running (no process found)... update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/plexmediaserver exists during rc.d purge (use -f to force) dpkg: error processing package plexmediaserver (--purge): subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: plexmediaserver E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
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Dave Wold over 9 yearsthats after using all the official commands for removal
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Memes almost 8 yearsany luck with this problem?
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Dave Wold over 9 yearsRemoving plexmediaserver (0.9.11.7.803-87d0708-debian) ... Plex Media Server is not running (no process found)... update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/plexmediaserver exists during rc.d purge (use -f to force) dpkg: error processing package plexmediaserver (--purge): subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: plexmediaserver E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
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0x2b3bfa0 over 9 yearsI edited the answer, try now.
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Dave Wold over 9 yearsno luck i get this Plex Media Server is not running (no process found)... update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/plexmediaserver exists during rc.d purge (use -f to force) dpkg: error processing package plexmediaserver (--purge): subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: plexmediaserver
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Dave Wold over 9 yearswon't let me reinstall, i'm going around in circles with this, i'm nearly at stage of reinstalling ubuntu
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0x2b3bfa0 over 9 yearsTry now. I made a edit.