Gentoo > How to get Plex client to work

Get the latest Plex client archive from Flathub's GitHub, for example:

mkdir plex
cd plex
wget https://artifacts.plex.tv/plex-desktop-stable/1.110.0.351-4e48eb83/linux/Plex-1.110.0.351-4e48eb83-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
tar -xvjf Plex*.tar.bz2

Patch out missing or updated libraries:

patchelf --replace-needed libwebp.so.6 libwebp.so.7 lib/libQt6WebEngineCore.so.6
patchelf --replace-needed libxml2.so.2 libxml2.so lib/libQt6WebEngineCore.so.6
patchelf --replace-needed libxml2.so.2 libxml2.so lib/libQt6WebEngineQuick.so.6

Create a start script, e.g. start.sh, to prevent segmentation faults:

#!/bin/bash

BASE_DIR=$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")
export QML_IMPORT_PATH=$BASE_DIR/qml/
export QML2_IMPORT_PATH=$BASE_DIR/qml/:$QML2_IMPORT_PATH
export QTWEBENGINEPROCESS_PATH=$BASE_DIR/bin/QtWebEngineProcess
export QTDIR=$BASE_DIR
export DISABLE_WAYLAND=${DISABLE_WAYLAND:-1}
export PLEX_USERDATA_DIR=${SNAP_USER_COMMON:-${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}/plex}
export PLEX_RESOURCE_PATH=$BASE_DIR/resources
export PLEX_STORAGE_INI_DIR=$PLEX_USERDATA_DIR
export PLEX_LOG_DIR=$PLEX_USERDATA_DIR/Logs
export PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_RESOURCES=$BASE_DIR/resources
"$BASE_DIR"/bin/Plex "$@"

Run it!
```
chmod +x start.sh
./start.sh
```

Notes

You may need to compile libjpeg-turbo with old JPEG8 support:
```
MYCMAKEARGS="-DWITH_JPEG8=ON" emerge -a libjpeg-turbo
```
Don't forget to persist those changes somewhere in our portage config ;)
The start.sh script is a stripped down amalgamation of the Plex.sh script that shipped with the original Plex .tar.bz archive.

The missing or outdated dependencies were found by searching everywhere:

for f in lib/*; do echo $f; ldd $f | rg libxml; done
for f in lib/*; do echo $f; ldd $f | rg libwebp; done

18:59 19.11.2025