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?
Why do you not have root? This isn’t a case of unauthorized use is it? If you are paying for a VPS you should have root. I can’t knowingly support anything devious
Side note: I personally would run Jellyfin on a Intel minipc for hardware acceleration.
I run it in podman in user context, root is not required
If you don’t have root is it really a VPS?
Anyway, unpack the binaries to
~/local/usr/binand add that to your PATH.~/.local/binis more typicalIt doesn’t matter. Put it in ~/foo/bar/Baz for all the shell cares.
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.
Why not use a docker image?
That requires root
I thought there is a rootless docker?
