If anyone in the future hits this thread looking for tips on how to manually update Plex (specifically the FreeNAS plugin, but it’s semiuniversal), or having trouble using methods mentioned elsewhere, I made several short, un-narrated videos on doing so manually – see my post on the FreeNAS forums: https://www.ixsystems.com/community/threads/cant-update-plex-on-freenas-11-2.72133/post-503553
These videos/instructions literally are manual (i.e. don’t require using anyone else’s script) using the update’s actual .tar.bz2 file and replacing the old resources with new ones. (Inspired by these old instructions for the previous jail system.)
