Comments on: How to Install Jellyfin Media Server in Ubuntu, Debian & Mint

By: Happy Golucky

Happy Golucky — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:31:48 +0000

This article does not cover how to allow Jellyfin to access media on external drives.
Nor does it link to any such article either on this site or elsewhere that does.
As such I have gone as far as this article can take me, and am still a long way away from being done.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 03:12:53 +0000

In reply to Timmy. I'm having the same problem. Did you find a solution?

By: Timmy

Timmy — Sun, 05 Jun 2022 22:44:51 +0000

How do grant permissions after installation? Cannot add media folders at all, no matter the location.

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 04:56:52 +0000

In reply to Brian. @Brian, You need to add sudo to the command to work. Try the following command:


$ echo "deb [arch=$( dpkg --print-architecture )] https://repo.jellyfin.org/debian bullseye main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jellyfin.list

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 11:14:22 +0000

Can't get past this to install Jellyfin:

echo "deb [arch=$( dpkg --print-architecture )] https://repo.jellyfin.org/debian bullseye main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jellyfin.list

tee: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jellyfin.list: Permission denied
deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.jellyfin.org/debian bullseye main

How do I gain Permission to the Jellyfin Repository, please?

By: Maximiliano

Maximiliano — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 16:45:39 +0000

In reply to Geoff Sullivan. Jellyfin does not officially support Linux Mint, so when you follow this guides installation steps it adds the wrong thing to the apt source lists. You have to change it like this:

$ sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jellyfin.list

In nano, delete the line that appears and paste deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.jellyfin.org/ubuntu focal main This reply should be included in the guide.

By: Steve MacLellan

Steve MacLellan — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 04:21:38 +0000

$ sudo systemctl start jellyfin

jellyfin package wasn't found.

By: Geoff Sullivan

Geoff Sullivan — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 12:39:59 +0000

After going through all the preliminaries I get this when issuing an update:

E: The repository ‘https://repo.jellyfin.org/linuxmint uma Release’ does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can’t be done securely and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

WTF?