Server Version#:1.14.1.5488 (FreeNAS 11.2-U3)
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I am trying to update PMS to the latest version (1.15.3.876). I ran a script in FreeNAS and FreeNAS says it updated to the latest version successfully, but PMS says the update never happened and prompts me to install the update manually.
I am totally confused on what to do to update PMS. What do I do to solve this problem?
That page reports to the latest PMS version (public or beta depending if yo have a plexpass).
But in OSes that don’t support auto updates this is generaly managed by the OS packages system or manually!
In FreeNAS that would be the plugin. Or perhaps pkgng if you have a regular jail and just install as if it was FreeBSD.
If it the later, by default FreeBSD point the repo to the “quarterly” builds rather the “latest”. If its the plugin then you just need to wait for updates.
I wouldn’t recommend any other method (like custom scripts) unless you absolutely know what you’re doing and even then support is not guaranteed.
That said what was the method you used to update?
Here is link of the script I ran inside the FreeNAS shell. I’ve run this before in the past and have not experienced any issues until now. For the record, I currently do not acquire a Plex pass.
Right this is a custom script that replaces the binaries/libs inside the “install dir”.
Its not the system’s package system (pkngng) or plugins system.
There’s actually quite a few posts here about the script no longer working in recent versions (1.15.X) because it doesn’t handle the rc.d script (that allows you to start/stop the service)
Also if the script says “I see no other updates” that’s based on whatever the script does, I’m not sure why that fails and I can’t help you there.
But I do know some users had troubles with that too and they were fixed after the script was fixed (perhaps check their github page if you want to keep using it)
Still would recommend that its perhaps best to use “pkgng” or the ports system if you want to handle manual updates in the jail and not wait for the plugin to update (which does take a while longer)
If you do opt by using pkgng you might need to update /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf and change where it says quarterly to latest.
Then use pkg upgrade.
Ehh, that’s okay. Now that I think about it, I’m not entirely comfortable using FreeNAS anymore only because I am not used to using NAS for anything. I may migrate to Linux since it is easier to update over there.
Keep in mind that on Linux there no auto update either.
But you can just install the deb/rpm.
I don’t understand why everything has to be so complicated. I can’t even migrate to Linux because of the way Plex is set up for me and on top of that the migration process is WAY to complex for me to understand.
I’ve decided to keep FreeNAS for now. Therefore, my main question now is how do I manually update PMS within FreeNAS? I thought the script I had was doing that but apparently it isn’t.
Not sure what you mean you can easily migrate to other OSes, see: https://support.plex.tv/articles/201370363-move-an-install-to-another-system/
As for keeping pms updated on freebsd based system the easiest way is to use pkgng and wait for that to be updated.
I can see on freshports it was just updated yesterday so it’s not gonna think long for the pkg to show up on pkgng repos. It’s usually days IIRC.
On freenas there also the plugin but that is usually more outdated.
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