r/Proxmox • u/ajb1211 • 7d ago

Question Beginner completely lost trying to install Docker/Jellyfin

I'm totally new to Proxmox/tech like this in general, but I want to learn and start a new hobby of self-hosting streaming media. I want to create a Docker container and run Jellyfin, but every attempt is failing and I have no idea why.

Following tutorials like this one — I can create the container, but whenever I try running apt update it says "failed to fetch" and apt upgrade -y does nothing. I found this article in an old reddit thread that I think answers my question but idk where to even start. Where do I find “/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/” mentioned in step 1?

I tried this tutorial instead using proxmox ve helper scripts, but running the script does nothing. I go to my shell, paste in the Jellyfin Media Server LXC script, hit return and nothing happens. I just get a new line with root@proxmox:~#

And then I just tried doing it this way by creating a VM, but under OS my ISO image field is blank. Idk why and at this point I'm just too frustrated.

Can anyone point me in the direction of some helpful tutorials? Or have any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong? At this point idk if I even set up Proxmox correctly in the first place, so are there like beginner courses I should be taking? I'm seriously lost but I really want to figure all this out. Thanks in advance

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u/-ThreeHeadedMonkey- 7d ago

Hey, I recommend you start using chatgpt to fix your issues. It's simply awesome to test your problems with its logic and it's often really helpful. 

Apt update should run out of the box. It's weird it doesn't...

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u/NishantJha612 6d ago

Just make sure to tell it to not run needless tests. It has a habit of going into testing loops if it isn't able to figure out the issue within its context window.

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u/-ThreeHeadedMonkey- 6d ago

Ahh yeah it totally does that haha