# Plex media server downgrade

**URL:** <https://dietpi.com/forum/t/plex-media-server-downgrade/4100>\
**Category:** Requests\
**Created:** [13 May 2020 17:46 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/plex-media-server-downgrade/4100 "2020-05-13T17:46:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![jives](https://dietpi.com/forum/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@jives](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/jives)\
**Post date:** [13 May 2020 17:46 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/plex-media-server-downgrade/4100/1 "2020-05-13T17:46:15Z")

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the recommended solution for playback problems on my LG Webos tv is downgrading Plex media server to 1.16.6.1592-b9d49bdb7, is this possible and how should I do that ?  
thanks in advance

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**Author:** ![Joulinar](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/joulinar/32/57_2.png) [@Joulinar](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Joulinar)\
**Post date:** [13 May 2020 22:35 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/plex-media-server-downgrade/4100/2 "2020-05-13T22:35:31Z")

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Hi,

many thanks for your report. Yes that’s possible. Basically a way how to manual install Plex is described on the following link

[https://www.linuxbabe.com/debian/install-plex-media-server-debian-10-buster](https://www.linuxbabe.com/debian/install-plex-media-server-debian-10-buster)

Based on this you would need to do the following to downgrade Plex

```nohighlight
systemctl stop plexmediaserver.service
wget https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-media-server-new/1.16.6.1592-b9d49bdb7/debian/plexmediaserver_1.16.6.1592-b9d49bdb7_armhf.deb
dpkg -i plexmediaserver_1.16.6.1592-b9d49bdb7_armhf.deb
systemctl start plexmediaserver.service

```

To verify installed version, you can do following

```nohighlight
dpkg -l plexmediaserver

```

Next to this, you would need to deactivate Plex on Debian source list. Otherwise Plex will be updated to newest version as soon as you execute apt upgrade.

```nohighlight
nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/plexmediaserver.list

```

By default, source list is active. Add a # in front of the line to disable this repository.

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**Author:** ![jives](https://dietpi.com/forum/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@jives](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/jives)\
**Post date:** [14 May 2020 09:04 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/plex-media-server-downgrade/4100/3 "2020-05-14T09:04:35Z")

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Thanks !!, works great

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**Author:** ![afyijcd](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/afyijcd/32/8111_2.png) [@afyijcd](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/afyijcd)\
**Post date:** [20 July 2025 22:26 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/plex-media-server-downgrade/4100/4 "2025-07-20T22:26:35Z")

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Tried to downgrade Plex on raspberry pi but Plex doesn’t have an archive. This nice site was very helpful in finding previous version.

> <https://github.com/axlecrusher/plex_download_urls/blob/ca0470e3eaeabcd52d3d51d50aeaddca16bf639c/archives/linux-aarch64.debian.md>