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Speaking nonsense? Bull. I received that error. That error went away when I added / before the path. If that was wrong or right, the error went away. Maybe it wasn't a proper solution, maybe it did nothing, maybe my build system is so broken that it worked when it shouldn't have. But at least I made the attempt to try. At least I tried to be proactive and help you out. So don't fault me for that. Next, baseless criticisms? Dude, you have zero clue what headache your little UID/GID change caused me. Before you took over this package, I had a "media" user and group on UID/GID 125, that was shared by Plex, deluge, sickbeard, and a few other processes. All of them worked quite well together. Then, suddenly that changed. The UID/GID changed to 421, so I moved the UIDs and GIDs over from the other users. Now, plex-media-server bitches left and right about adding users, being unable to delete users, and all sorts of other issues that frankly, weren't there until you made that change. I read the notes, I get why it was done. I'm not stating it was necessarily a bad decision, either, but the point is, IT WAS A HEADACHE, and because of how my system was set up, it has become somewhat of a disaster. So take your elitism and crappy attitude and shovel it elsewhere. If you aren't going to accept people trying in earnest to report a bug with the package, with a potential solution (regardless of how off-base it may be), perhaps you should step down.

I could have, and he could have refrained from speaking nonsense and baseless criticism as well. Nonsensical statements and destructive criticism are not answered with kindness in my book. When I don't know what I'm talking about, I make my research first, and ask later. I don't propose utterly wrong solutions and add a free criticism to the lot.

You could have just told him to try building it with makepkg rather than being a dick about it.

Haha, if you honestly believe adding a '/' line 46 is the way to go, you have absolutely no right to say things like disaster and UID/GID because you most likely have no idea what you're talking about :P Now if you really want to install the package, build it like a man with makepkg instead of using an outdated AUR helper which, by the looks of it, doesn't support the newest features, in this case arch specifics arrays.

Getting build failures when installing this package. $ aura -A plex-media-server aura >>= Determining dependencies... aura >>= AUR Packages: plex-media-server aura >>= Continue? [Y/n] aura >>= Building `plex-media-server`... aura >>= Well, building `plex-media-server` failed. aura >>= Dumping makepkg output in 3.. 2.. 1.. ==> Making package: plex-media-server 0.9.12.1.1079-1 (Sun May 10 23:43:49 PDT 2015) ==> Checking runtime dependencies... ==> Checking buildtime dependencies... ==> Retrieving sources... -> Found plexmediaserver.conf.d -> Found plexmediaserver.service -> Found terms.txt ==> Validating source files with sha256sums... plexmediaserver.conf.d ... Passed plexmediaserver.service ... Passed terms.txt ... Passed ==> Extracting sources... ==> Starting prepare()... ==> Entering fakeroot environment... ==> Starting package()... cp: cannot stat ‘usr/lib/plexmediaserver’: No such file or directory ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package(). Aborting... aura >>= Would you like to continue anyway? [Y/n] n aura >>= Building failed. Now, if I edit the PKGBUILD before hand, adding a "/" to line 46, just before the "usr/lib/plexmediaserver" path, it installs fine. Still sorting out the disaster that UID/GID permissions have become.

jobski: Thx, bumped. lty1993: I don't believe this is a coincidence so next time please make sure the new release is actually out before you flag, because it wasn't yet, and you saying nothing just puts your name on the 'people who flag for no reason' list, which is quite extensive.

There's a new version out 0.9.12.1.1079

lty1993: Next time you flag out of date, you might want to give a reason. Unflagging.

chimeracoder: I don't remember, was the service part of the backup array before I took over? If it was, then it would explain why you had an outdated service file, but still you're supposed to run pacdiff after an upgrade if pacman tells you some files have been backed up. If it wasn't, then a higher power may be toying with you, but in any case there's nothing wrong with the current package.

For what it's worth, my service file was incorrect after updating - it still pointed to the old location. Replacing the ExecStart line with ExecStart="/opt/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server" fixed the issue.