Emby Updater for Ubuntu/Linux

[JarvisTek 3]

Remembered after... well, let's just say it's been a LONG time, that my emby-updater script was broken. Not sure if anyone else has posted anything in a while, so I finally just buckled down and wrote a new script to check and install updates for me and figured I'd share the wealth with anyone else who maybe wants it.

 

This script can be updated to work with any linux-based emby install, just change what you're downloading with wget and what you're using to install if it's not dpkg.

#!/bin/bash

# stop emby-server service before proceeding
systemctl stop emby-server

# may as well update everything else as well
apt-get update && apt-get -y upgrade

# wgets the latest ubuntu x64 debian installer
curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/MediaBrowser/Emby.Releases/releases/latest | grep "emby-server-deb.*amd64.deb" | cut -d : -f 2,3 | tr -d \" | wget -qi -

# sets a couple variables for easy reference later
installer=`ls -b emby-server-deb*amd64.deb`
cur_ver=`dpkg-query -W emby-server | cut -f 2`
new_ver=`echo $installer | cut -d _ -f 2`

# checks to see if the current version of emby matches the downloaded version
if [ $cur_ver == $new_ver ]
then

    # if the versions match, don't try to install and just restart the emby-server service
    echo Same version, skipping install
    systemctl start emby-server
else

    # if there is a new version, go ahead and install it
    dpkg -i $installer
fi

# clean up the file I downloaded earlier
rm $installer
 

Edited January 31, 2019 by JarvisTek

[Luke 42079]

Cool, thanks !

[angusleung 6]

 

Remembered after... well, let's just say it's been a LONG time, that my emby-updater script was broken. Not sure if anyone else has posted anything in a while, so I finally just buckled down and wrote a new script to check and install updates for me and figured I'd share the wealth with anyone else who maybe wants it.

 

This script can be updated to work with any linux-based emby install, just change what you're downloading with wget and what you're using to install if it's not dpkg.

#!/bin/bash

# stop emby-server service before proceeding
systemctl stop emby-server

# may as well update everything else as well
apt-get update && apt-get -y upgrade

# wgets the latest ubuntu x64 debian installer
curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/MediaBrowser/Emby.Releases/releases/latest | grep "emby-server-deb.*amd64.deb" | cut -d : -f 2,3 | tr -d \" | wget -qi -

# sets a couple variables for easy reference later
installer=`ls -b emby-server-deb*amd64.deb`
cur_ver=`dpkg-query -W emby-server | cut -f 2`
new_ver=`echo $installer | cut -d _ -f 2`

# checks to see if the current version of emby matches the downloaded version
if [ $cur_ver == $cur_ver ]
then

    # if the versions match, don't try to install and just restart the emby-server service
    echo Same version, skipping install
    systemctl start emby-server
else

    # if there is a new version, go ahead and install it
    dpkg -i $installer
fi

# clean up the file I downloaded earlier
rm $installer

 

Hi, the variables in the bracket are the same, maybe it should look like

if [ $cur_ver == $new_ver ]

Edited January 30, 2019 by angusleung

[JarvisTek 3]

Thanks! Did do that late at night and I guess it shows, lol! Fixed the original so people don't have to go hunting and pecking for one that works.

[GWTPqZp6b 50]

this is very useful, thanks. Do you know how to adapt to be able to pull the latest beta? (4.2.0.28 vs 4.1.1.0 as of my msg)

[JarvisTek 3]

 

But seriously, just drop the "/latest" and it should* work.

*I haven't tested this and really don't plan on it

 

Edit - taking a quick peek between the regular "/latest" url and not, you'd probably have to add in some limiting for the grep as well like a "-m 1" or something since the normal "/latest" page only has the latest version for each platform and therefore doesn't have duplicates.

Edited July 13, 2019 by JarvisTek

[GWTPqZp6b 50]

I've been running beta's for a while in the man cave, I'm just being lazy

Dropping the /latest results in the script pulling down a lot of files, 

 

```

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19821048 Mar 21  2018 emby-server-deb_3.2.34.0_amd64.deb

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 47945352 Mar 21  2018 emby-server-deb_3.2.35.0_amd64.deb

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 50995724 Mar 21  2018 emby-server-deb_3.2.40.0_amd64.deb

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 50958206 Mar 21  2018 emby-server-deb_3.2.50.0_amd64.deb

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 47580030 Mar 22  2018 emby-server-deb_3.2.60.0_amd64.deb

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 47739398 Mar 22  2018 emby-server-deb_3.2.70.0_amd64.deb

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 47752942 Mar 22  2018 emby-server-deb_3.3.0.0_amd64.deb

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 47747170 Mar 22  2018 emby-server-deb_3.3.1.0_amd64.deb

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 50719070 May  2  2018 emby-server-deb_3.4.0.0_amd64.deb

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 50719226 May  7  2018 emby-server-deb_3.4.1.0_amd64.deb

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 53624290 Jul 20  2018 emby-server-deb_3.5.0.0_amd64.deb

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 53637976 Jul 24  2018 emby-server-deb_3.5.1.0_amd64.deb

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 53276062 Jul 29  2018 emby-server-deb_3.5.2.0_amd64.deb

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51496686 Sep 19  2018 emby-server-deb_3.5.3.0_amd64.deb

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 57682160 Jan 20 09:56 emby-server-deb_4.0.0.2_amd64.deb

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 57681342 Jan 21 14:01 emby-server-deb_4.0.1.0_amd64.deb

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 57676782 Feb 12 14:15 emby-server-deb_4.0.2.0_amd64.deb

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 61692792 Apr 19 17:01 emby-server-deb_4.1.0.26_amd64.deb

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   225851 Jul 12 22:34 emby-server-deb_4.1.1.0_amd64.deb

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 63382032 Jul  2 14:28 emby-server-deb_4.2.0.24_amd64.deb

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 63377490 Jul 12 21:05 emby-server-deb_4.2.0.28_amd64.deb

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root      985 Jul 12 22:34 update.sh

```

 

I'll look into it, thanks for the original script. 

[IkeTaylor11 61]

@@Luke is there a reason the Emby software for Linux can't update itself? I have lots of apps on Linux that are capable of this, why can't Emby implement auto-update for Linux like it does for Windows? 

[mastrmind11 722]

you should be able to set this up yourself.  https://askubuntu.com/questions/1121188/is-there-a-way-to-automatically-update-installed-programs

[Luke 42079]

We just haven't gotten to it yet. Thanks.