How to Update PlexMediaServer on TrueNAS Core 13.0-U2 - Assistance please?

[dcs730]

So I've bitten the bullet and performed a TrueNAS Core 12.0.U8 and now running TrueNAS Core Ver 13.0-U2.

No issues with the upgrade.
SAMBA Shares and Permissions appear ok.
PlexMediaServer also working ok.
Other service not yet tested, but all appears working.

I'd like to proceed with also updating PlexMediaServer to the latest release.

I am currently running Ver 1.24.0.4930
Release 12.2-RELEASE-P10

The official Plugin appear to be @ 1.28.2.6151

How do upgrade from ver 1.24.0.49430 to the latest official support version on Core Ver 13.0-U2.

I've tried the Update option but appears to fail.

When I login to the plexmediaserver console from the LAN on a pc - Plex Media Server prompts with the following message.

"Update Available for Plex Media Server" You are currently running version 1.28.2.6106 on the server "DCSPlex". Version 1.29.0.6244 is now available. This update will need to be installed manually after download.

So I download the latest file... "PlexMediaServer-1.29.0.6244-819d3678c-FreeBSD-amd64.tar.bz2" approx 98,184 kb

Now I need instructions on how to manually copied it to the TrueNAS Jail to update the PlexMediaServer install to version : 1.29.0.6244.

Happy to perform a manual update if steps can be provided?

 

[danb35]

official Plugin

Don't use plugins.

iXsystems, when are you going to stop pretending that CORE has (usable) plugins?

Plugins are broken. We all know it, and you have no intention of fixing them. Most notably, @Kris Moore has said not to use them, and that they're "more or less deprecated": using plugins on CORE is a path to sadness. The plugin system is more or less deprecated and as you can tell, somewhat...

www.truenas.com

 

[Baenwort]

You need to look up the

Code:

iocage upgrade

command and update the jail version to 13 also. Once you do that you may have more success with the update.

Once you are on the same FreeBSD version in the jail as your TrueNAS version you can try the plug in update again or enter the jail shell and run pkg update after performing a service stop on the plexmediaserver.

 

[Andrew Ostrom]

Don't know if you've already solved your update problem, but many of use a shell script "pms_updater.sh" to do this easily and painlessly. You can find it here: https://github.com/mstinaff/PMS_Updater, and there are various discussions in the TrueNAS and PLEX forums about it. You can ignore 90% of that chatter - all you need to do is copy over the script and make sure you have Python (and maybe something else, I can't remember) installed inside the jail. I'm not a Unix/Linux person (my experience is with other operating systems) and I found it easy to set up and run. Some people set up a chron job to run it periodically, I just do it manually.

 

[TAC]

So I've bitten the bullet and performed a TrueNAS Core 12.0.U8 and now running TrueNAS Core Ver 13.0-U2.

No issues with the upgrade.
SAMBA Shares and Permissions appear ok.
PlexMediaServer also working ok.
Other service not yet tested, but all appears working.

I'd like to proceed with also updating PlexMediaServer to the latest release.

I am currently running Ver 1.24.0.4930
Release 12.2-RELEASE-P10

The official Plugin appear to be @ 1.28.2.6151

How do upgrade from ver 1.24.0.49430 to the latest official support version on Core Ver 13.0-U2.

I've tried the Update option but appears to fail.

When I login to the plexmediaserver console from the LAN on a pc - Plex Media Server prompts with the following message.

"Update Available for Plex Media Server" You are currently running version 1.28.2.6106 on the server "DCSPlex". Version 1.29.0.6244 is now available. This update will need to be installed manually after download.

So I download the latest file... "PlexMediaServer-1.29.0.6244-819d3678c-FreeBSD-amd64.tar.bz2" approx 98,184 kb

Now I need instructions on how to manually copied it to the TrueNAS Jail to update the PlexMediaServer install to version : 1.29.0.6244.

Happy to perform a manual update if steps can be provided?

@cs730 When you updated TrueNAS from 12 --> 13 where all you applications in jails, and the all work just fine after the update?

I'm about to jump from 12 to 13 and I am running Plex, Sonarr, Radarr, Sabnzb all in jails and I'm hoping it's a no-brain update but I've heard rumors of issues.

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

If you installed plugins, you are 100% dependent on the plugin maintainers for updates. If you run standard jails, updates are easy and mostly reliable. You can check for the latest version of any FreeBSD package at Freshports.

 

[TAC]

Yes, I'm getting the idea you should stay away from all plugins.

 

[winnielinnie]

I am running Plex, Sonarr, Radarr, Sabnzb all in jails

From the other thread, it seems like you're using "Plugins".

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Plugins are essentially a json file listing a bunch of packages and a script or two for initial deployment. When they were designed seemingly nobody thought of ongoing maintenance, specifically for complex things like Nextcloud mandating database schema updates with every upgrade etc.

It's not that they are necessarily broken. They just fall short of user expectations and so did not gain much traction, because the very people (like me) who would be able to improve them have been rolling their own jails all these years, anyway.