Installing Jellyfin as a Podman Quadlet

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 17:59:03 -0230

Jellyfin is everyone’s favourite open-source multimedia player. This guide goes over how to install it as a Podman Quadlet. This assumes you already have Podman setup for Quadlets. Follow this guide to setup Podman for Quadlets.

Create the container

First, create and edit /etc/containers/systemd/jellyfin.container as sudo and paste the following.

[Unit]
Description=Podman - Jellyfin
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target

[Container]
Image=lscr.io/linuxserver/jellyfin:latest
AutoUpdate=registry
ContainerName=jellyfin
Environment=PUID={PUID} # `id -u` to get value needed
Environment=PGID={PGID} # `id -g` to get value needed
Environment=TZ=America/St_Johns # Change to your time zone
Volume={JELLYFIN_CONFIG}:/config
Volume={MOVIE_DIR}:/movies
Volume={TV_DIR}:/tv
PublishPort=8096:8096
PublishPort=8920:8920
PublishPort=7359:7359/udp
PublishPort=1900:1900/udp

[Service]
Restart=always
TimeoutStartSec=900

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

Change the values to the ones that apply to you. Start and check the container.

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Installing Jellyfin as a Podman Quadlet

Create the container