Hello! I would like to ask someone, how can i install plex from .tar.bz2 file? I have xbox 360, and new versions have problem with streaming vids to it, so i have found old bz2 plexmediaserver file, which supports xbox 360. how can I install it, please? Im thinking about buying plex pass, but i dont want it till my freebsd server will run plex that supports xbox 360.
PS: when i started the .sh file inside the bz2 zip, it worked, but i would like it to run as service and autostart with server.
Sorry for my bad english, it is not my main language.
Just use pkg install then. If you donāt know how FreeBSD works thatās what you should go with, cronrab is not a rc.d scriptā¦ itās really not the best for this.
ports are not hard and FreeBSD is fairly straight forward, but still if youāre new to this, pkg is your best bet.
The exact command was there, but that installs the latest available in the repo (by default FreeBSD targets what they call the āquarterlyā repo, but yo can change to ālatestā).
This is all very sepcific to BSD though so if you need more help with how that all works, their handbook (FreeBSD Handbook | FreeBSD Documentation Portal) or forums is likely where you will find best help!
As I said above canāt install the tarball on plex downloads like that not, its not a āready to installā package its a compress tarball of the binaries and libs! FreeBSD and FreeNAS use it to make the port and packages available to you!
It wasnāt clear from the first post that you were looking for an older version, youāre best bet there would be to try to build the port for and older version and hope it works, but I can tell you it wonāt be worth the effort as it will not work!
You need a fairly recent PMS version for everything to fully work. The 360 app is not update since long ago because Microsoft dropped support years ago, they donāt even update root certs there which IIRC doesnāt even allow it to talk to servers securely, ofc you could drop security if its all LAN, but still doubt the client will fully work (I guess thatās what you found how and why you are looking for a older version).
Its quite the dilema, I understand youāre problem, but a PMS version that old, will not work fully for sure and other clients wouldnāt be able to talk to it! Also the 360 didnāt really have great playback capabilities unlike the Xbox One and Xbox One X.
If I can offer some advice that will save you a lot of time (And time is money), If you donāt have any other hardware for a client, a cheap āFire Stickā or āChromecastā is probably the best, or if bugget allows an nVdia Shield! Something āin the middleā would be the mi box. The fire stick it self is not expensive anyway!
Another option which I would really not recommend is maybe us DLNA (not sure if the Xbox 360 supported it but I think so); ofc its not really a full client, but if it work you could keep on using the same hardware!
Yeah FreeNAS specific questions are best put in their own forums! But the OP doesnāt reffer to FreeNAS specifically and using pkg/ports is the same in both (ofc the recommend way in FreeNAS is plugins but we didnātā even get into that )
FreeBSD, or a any other FreeBSD based system here would make much difference indeed!! Do note that we only claim to support FreeBSD 11.2 and try do do our best to keep it FreeNAS compatible since its our main user base when it comes to BSD.
Its nice to have userās feedback on other products and hopefully since its just BSD at least the pkg and port should work fine, that said if things break you are own youāre own.
I got a bit off topic though, the fact is for what the OP wants here, thereās really no perfect solution!
(FYI this was in reply to a post that seems to have been deleted )
Yeah, brain fart and senior moment, all at the same timeā¦ I swore I read FreeNAS in the OP and went to townā¦ Then after I posted, I reread the OP, and realized my mistakeā¦ Tried to hit delete before anybody caught itā¦ lolā¦
Itās not hard, you just need to place a file in /usr/local/etc/ I believeā¦ Do a search on the FreeBSD forum for āquarterlyā and ālatestāā¦ You will find the specific path, file name, and contents of the file to change which port tree you pull fromā¦ If you have problems finding it let me knowā¦ Donāt forget to update your port tree with āportsnapā after you make the changeā¦
Actually if you just look in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf it tells you how!
# create a /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf file:
#
# mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos
# echo "FreeBSD: { enabled: no }" > /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
#
in the same way you can set enabled:no, you can also just set url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest" or anything else for that matter.
You can actually change the /etc/ file but that will be overwritten in future updates; changes on /usr/local/etc/ however always stick after OS updates;
really sorry, but you have lost me there. i have also not had much luck in finding out how to change it to lastest. also i did try portsnap update, but i keep getting an error "you must upgrade the ports-mgmt/pkg port first ".
Iāve youāre not very familiar with FreeBSD and pkgng or shell commands in general, I would advice you stick with the plugin, but hopefully those instructions are
easy to follow and you wonāt have to do it again!
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