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Seems like you followed some random AI generated guide like this one:
https://www.ipv6.rs/tutorial/Elementary_OS_Latest/Jellyfin/
Whenever you're downloading a Linux (or any) package, always try to look for the official documentation, like here:
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/installation/linux#debian--ubuntu-and-derivatives
Where it will tell you to install Jellyfin on a Debian/Ubuntu based system is simply:
curl https://repo.jellyfin.org/install-debuntu.sh | sudo bash
and it also tells you that if you don't have curl already installed, either install it first or instead run:
wget -O- https://repo.jellyfin.org/install-debuntu.sh | sudo bash
which is their official installer.
If you want to undo what you did before installing (assuming you followed the bad guide linked above), just remove the file it created here first:
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/jellyfin.list
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.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.