This walkthrough involves typing commands into a command window. When writing this up I started with a brand new Windows 10 install. I am assuming you do not have any of these tools already installed. If I only give you the happy path, then when you make a typo later on you’ll have no idea where that typo might be or why it’s breaking things.
This is to help you understand what exactly is going on behind the scenes so that when you see these sorts of problems in the wild you will have some background to understand what’s happening. You’re going to deliberately cause errors and then fix them as you go through it. I’m assuming you’re reading it because you have no idea how to get a Python script going, so I’m proceeding from the assumption that you want to be walked through every little detail.
This walkthrough is going to be pretty pedantic. In some cases it’s displaying output from a command you’ve typed, but the difference should be apparent in context. That’s a command you’re going to type or paste into your terminal (OSX or Linux) or Powershell (Windows). It provides a simple “Getting Started” guide for those for whom the standard install instructions make no sense presumably because you’ve never run a Python script before. It doesn’t cover how to create your own collections, or how to add overlays, or any of the myriad other things PMM is capable of. All the configuration of PMM is done via YAML text files, so if you are unable or unwilling to learn how those work, you should stop here.įinally, this walkthrough is intended to give you a basic grounding in how to get the script running. If the idea of editing YAML files by hand is daunting, this may not be the tool for you. That will eliminate the Python and git installs from this process and make it as simple as it can be. If you are unable or unwilling to learn the rudiments of using tools like python and git, you should probably strongly consider running PMM in Docker. Note that running a Python script is inherently a pretty technical process. Use a text editor to modify a couple of text files until you have a working config file and a single working metadata file. Gather two things that the script requires: Verify that the Git tools are installed and install them if not Verify that Python 3.7 or better is installed and install it if not Setting up a metadata file and creating a couple sample collections. This article will walk you through getting Plex-Meta-Manager set up and running.
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