how Install plex medi server on 16.04

I got a recurrent error

Setting up plexmediaserver (1.0.0.2261-a17e99e) ...
OK
Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/ to /lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service.
Job for plexmediaserver.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status plexmediaserver.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
dpkg: error processing package plexmediaserver (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ...
Errors were encountered while processing: plexmediaserver
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

then systemctl status plexmediaserver.service gives

● plexmediaserver.service - Plex Media Server for Linux Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service.d └─overide.conf Active: inactive (dead) (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2016-07-20 17:49:09 HKT; 2min 36s ago Process: 5531 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c /usr/bin/test -d "${PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR}" || /bin/m
Jul 20 17:49:04 homeserver systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Unit entered failed state.
Jul 20 17:49:04 homeserver systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jul 20 17:49:09 homeserver systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Jul 20 17:49:09 homeserver systemd[1]: Stopped Plex Media Server for Linux.
Jul 20 17:49:09 homeserver systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Jul 20 17:49:09 homeserver systemd[1]: Failed to start Plex Media Server for Linux.

I already tried different way to purge the previous install, nothing works. For info, the route that lead me here : - See on plex web app that there is an update available, connect by SSH to my server , wget the deb file, then dpkg-i => failure - I then decide de finally do the ubuntu 16.04 upgrade. - after upgrade, still not working for the upgrade - tried de-install, then re-install, no luck, try again with purge, still no luck.

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it ended up being a permission issue. so a

sudo chmod 0777 -R /var/lib/plexmediaserver
sudo chown plex:plex -R /var/lib/plexmediaserver
sudo service plexmediaserver restart

solved the issue

It appears as well that the sudo apt-get remove --purge plexmediaserver does not clean all things.

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