After downloading latest upgrade. How is the installation of this done?
I used the tarball to replace the existing files, however it failed to start and after executing start.sh in the plexmediaserver-plexpass dir. I seems to start
But this needed to be done at each reboot.
Strangely enough after a couple restarts the plex app reports that I’m running the old version and to update this is after it reported that the new version was installed.
Any experience with this is appreciated.
Thanks
The best way to update on FreeBSD is using the system tools (pkgng and ports).
If you’re using FreeNAS then perhaps the plugin is the best.
And even in FreeNAS it ok to update via pkgng too and should get you more recent version.
Are you on FreeBSD or FreeNAS
Hi
Thank you for your attention.
Using freebsd, updates are not posted so quick with pkg or ports, that’s why I grabbed tarball from the downloads of Plex. That’s the issue as no information on how to do the update is include in the tarball.
Brian
I would say it’s actually very often updated compared to other NAS platforms…
But it is true the fact that the downloads page gives the tar all without much details could be better however there are literally tons of posts about this here in the forums and most FreeBSD users would use pkgng/ports anyway.
With ports its not actually that a hard to even update the port manually or eve automate it… it’s the beauty of FreeBSD ports really… and I I actually shared a script in the forums that does just that… however I’m on mobile now and can really search properly.
Still I would stick to the regular channels (pkgng/ports) for stability.
However if you want to unpack the tar all you could… just do it to the same place where the original files are installed not a new dir and the rc.d script will still work… the start.sh is there mostly for debugging purposes /sample of what envs are needed.
This is the process I use for updating my Plex on FreeNAS. I am still on 11.3 so I haven’t tested w/ TrueNAS, but it has worked for me every
time.
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