Manual Repo Setup: DNF

Fedora / RHEL / CentOS

This guide explains how to configure the Emby RPM repository manually for DNF-based systems (without using get.sh).

Prerequisites

You need:

  • dnf
  • curl
  • ca-certificates

On some distributions, dnf config-manager is provided by dnf-plugins-core.

Channels

Emby publishes two RPM channels:

  • stable (repo id: emby)
  • beta (repo id: emby-beta)

You should configure exactly one of them.

Option A (simple): use dnf config-manager with the published .repo

This matches the short form shown on the website.

Stable

sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://pkg.emby.media/rpm/emby.repo
sudo dnf makecache

Beta

sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://pkg.emby.media/rpm/emby-beta.repo
sudo dnf makecache

Notes:

  • The .repo file is installed under /etc/yum.repos.d/.
  • DNF may prompt to import a GPG key the first time it uses the repo.

This mirrors the behavior of tree_update/rpm/setup-dnf.sh (used by get.sh).

Stable

  1. Download the repo file:
sudo curl -fsSL https://pkg.emby.media/rpm/emby.repo -o /etc/yum.repos.d/emby.repo
  1. Download and import the signing key:
  • Key URL: https://pkg.emby.media/keys/emby-public.asc
  • Local key path (recommended): /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/emby-public.asc
sudo install -d -m 0755 /etc/pki/rpm-gpg
sudo curl -fsSL https://pkg.emby.media/keys/emby-public.asc -o /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/emby-public.asc
sudo rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/emby-public.asc 2>/dev/null || sudo rpmkeys --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/emby-public.asc || true
  1. Ensure the repo file uses the local file:// key path (prevents repeated prompts):
sudo sed -i -E 's|^[[:space:]]*gpgkey=.*$|gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/emby-public.asc|' /etc/yum.repos.d/emby.repo
  1. Refresh metadata:
sudo dnf -y clean metadata || true
sudo dnf -y makecache --refresh --repo emby

Beta

Same steps, but using the beta .repo file and repo id:

sudo curl -fsSL https://pkg.emby.media/rpm/emby-beta.repo -o /etc/yum.repos.d/emby-beta.repo

sudo install -d -m 0755 /etc/pki/rpm-gpg
sudo curl -fsSL https://pkg.emby.media/keys/emby-public.asc -o /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/emby-public.asc
sudo rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/emby-public.asc 2>/dev/null || sudo rpmkeys --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/emby-public.asc || true

sudo sed -i -E 's|^[[:space:]]*gpgkey=.*$|gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/emby-public.asc|' /etc/yum.repos.d/emby-beta.repo

sudo dnf -y clean metadata || true
sudo dnf -y makecache --refresh --repo emby-beta

Verify repository configuration

List known repos and confirm emby or emby-beta is present:

dnf repolist --all | grep -E '^(emby|emby-beta)'

Show package info:

dnf info emby-server

List available packages (basic search):

dnf search emby

List available versions (shows duplicates):

dnf list --showduplicates emby-server

Install / upgrade / uninstall examples

Install server:

sudo dnf install emby-server

Upgrade:

sudo dnf upgrade

Uninstall:

sudo dnf remove emby-server

Remove the repository

Stable:

sudo rm -f /etc/yum.repos.d/emby.repo
sudo dnf -y clean metadata || true

Beta:

sudo rm -f /etc/yum.repos.d/emby-beta.repo
sudo dnf -y clean metadata || true

(You can keep /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/emby-public.asc if you plan to re-add the repo later.)