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Can someone walk me through the proper way to install plex from a bz2 file? I have a newly created jail. Also, once this is done, will plex update automatically? If not, what is the manual update procedure?
Adam
What OS/platform are you using? pure FreeBSD or FreeNAS? best/simpler way to install is to use “pkg install” inside the jail, but there’s also a plugin for freenas (I would suggest using pkg inside the jail as it tends to be more up to date).
You can’t install using the bz2 directly, that’s just a tarball that the ports system will use to “build” the port (which is mostly making sure the files go to the proper places and dependencies are installed if needed) it also installs the rc.d script and creates the plex user so all is easy and simple for the user.
The port is not maintained by Plex but its generally up to date (with maybe some days difference), however you do need to update manually (i.e. via pkg upgrade) or use a cron job or such, but the built-in pms auto updater is only for Windows and OSX.
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