If you’ve been with playit for awhile you may have installed the playit agent using our old script. The method we used is no longer best practice and you’ll likely get a warning about playit whenever you run apt-get update. You can fix this by these commands sudo apt-key del '16AC CC32 BD41 5DCC 6F00 D548 DA6C D75E C283 9680' sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/playit-cloud.list sudo apt update curl -SsL https://playit-cloud.github.io/ppa/key.gpg | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/playit.gpg >/dev/null echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/playit.gpg] https://playit-cloud.github.io/ppa/data ./" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/playit-cloud.list sudo apt update The commands explained sudo apt-key del '16AC CC32 BD41 5DCC 6F00 D548 DA6C D75E C283 9680' This comamnd will remove playit’s signing key from your general apt repository trust. If a key is in your general apt repository trust, your computer will accept any package signed by us. That’s not a good thing so it’s good idea to remove our key. Read more

Using systemd (preferred) Starting with version 0.15.0 when you install the playit program via apt-get we add a systemd unit which makes it easy to run playit in the background. Not sure how to install playit on linux or with apt-get? Check this out: How to run playit.gg on Linux . To start the playit agent in the background you can run sudo systemctl start playit If you want the playit agent start when you boot up your computer you can run Read more

If you’re running on a Ubuntu or Debian based operating system to you can use apt. curl -SsL https://playit-cloud.github.io/ppa/key.gpg | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/playit.gpg >/dev/null echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/playit.gpg] https://playit-cloud.github.io/ppa/data ./" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/playit-cloud.list sudo apt update sudo apt install playit Playit also releases raw binaries that you can download and run. You can download the latest version of the playit.gg program from playit.gg/download . When you try to run the program, you might get errors like Read more

There’s a lot of different Linux distributions so you’re solution might vary. Updating DNS in Ubuntu Updating DNS by editing “/etc/resolv.conf” Updating DNS by editing “/etc/systemd/resolved.conf” Updating DNS in Ubuntu On the top right of your desktop, open the drop down and select either Wired Settings or WiFi Settings. Next press the gear icon next to the connection. A window should pop up, nagivate to the IPv4 tab, disable Automatic in the DNS row and put 8.8.8.8,8.8.4.4 in the text field. Read more