Hello, I yet again come, hat in hand, for assistance from those wiser in the ways of the Linux. I’m having a bit of an issue downloading Jellyfin on my ElementaryOS laptop. I’ve tried all the guide on the first few pages of ddg only to receive errors after entering the comman “ sudo apt-get update “. I get ERR:3 https//repo.jellyfin.org/debian circle Release 404 Not found.
If someone can point me the way I’d be most appreciative
I just wanted to add a small follow up comment because I remember being young and copy-pasting commands into Linux and eventually getting really frustrated. Therefore, he’s a (brief) explanation of the commands:
curl
is just an open source tool for making Web requests from the command line. It’s a great tool to have in general.https://repo.jellyfin.org/install-debuntu.sh
the URL of a shell script from repo.jellyfin.org (Jellyfin’s official website)What is a shell script? It’s a script that runs a whole bunch of commands by itself, so you don’t have to copy-paste them from the internet. Basically the official Jellyfin people in this case made a file with all of the commands the computer needs to run to install the package. This is great because it means the people who made Jellyfin tested these commands and they’re responsible for keeping it up to date if anything changes.
| bash
The ‘pipe’ or|
symbol in Linux is a cool Unix philosophy of ‘connecting’ programs together. You run one program, and tell it to pass the results to another program. In this case, you’re tellingcurl
to download the script athttps://repo.jellyfin.org/install-debuntu.sh
and then passing that file tobash
(which is the shell program in the terminal that runs commands) and to run it assudo
or ‘super-user’.Hope this was helpful. The last thing you should know is the command you probably copy-pasted before made you add a source to the
/etc/apt/sources
files, which are basically just a list of sources forapt
, the package manager to download from, and since the command was wrong or outdated,apt
is complaining that the Jellyfin source was not found.GOOD FOLLOW UP!!
I was about to shit a brick that you went from “go to the official trusted source” to “just trust me: curl [x] | sudo bash”
https://youtu.be/dT7X2IxBDjc
The one thing I’d add is to say don’t run a shell script from the Internet unless you’re damn sure that (a) you trust the entity providing it, and (b) you’re downloading via https and haven’t typo’d the URL.
Agreed, but I didn’t want to overwhelm the guy with too much info :P The official guide even recommends checking the cryptographic signature of the script and reading its contents first. I’m sure like all of us they’ll nuke their system several times and before long will be writing their own shell scripts.