Plex plugin update for FreeNAS 9.10.2-U6?

stualden

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First, I apologize to everyone for "living in the stone age." Things ain't been broke, so I've had no reason to fix them. But something just came up:

Since the automatic update of the Plex plugin for FreeNAS (9.10.2-U6) stopped working a few years ago, I've been successfully using the manual process I found in this forum, issuing these commands in a shell in the jail:

fetch -o PMS_Updater.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mstinaff/PMS_Updater/master/PMS_Updater.sh

chmod 755 PMS_Updater.sh

./PMS_Updater.sh -vv -a



Yesterday I saw an alert for a new Plex version, but for the first time I got errors running the update:

root@plexmediaserver_1:/ # ./PMS_Updater.sh -vv -a

sed: /Plex Media Server/Preferences.xml: No such file or directory
Shared object "libc++.so.1" not found, required by "Plex Media Server"
Using URL https://plex.tv/api/downloads/5.json
Searching https://plex.tv/api/downloads/5.json for the FreeBSD download URL ....
.Shared object "libdl.so.1" not found, required by "Plex Script Host"
fetch: -: Broken pipe
Could not find a FreeBSD download link on page https://plex.tv/api/downloads/5.j
son?channel=plexpass&X-Plex-Token=

root@plexmediaserver_1:/ #



My question - is there an easy fix here? Or is it hopeless to try to maintain a Plex Media Server on FreeNAS 9?
 
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artlessknave

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warden is deprecated. completely. so yes, hopeless. you need to upgrade to 11.x, and use iocage jails to get any reliable updates, since, again, warden is deprecated.
 

stualden

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Very good, thank you. Time to upgrade!
 

pgreenwood

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I hope this is not too far off the mark, but I had this same problem. I am <relatively> new to FreeNAS and would like to confirm my understanding that FreeNAS is a specialized edition of FreeBSD so updating/upgrading FreeNAS will take care of whatever parts of FreeBSD that need to be changed.

Or stated another way, updating/upgrading FreeNAS means a new updated/upgraded specialized version or edition of FreeBSD will be installed and there is no need to concern onself with updating/upgrading FreeBSD per se because it is part and parcel of FreeNAS.

Do I have that about right? Thanks.
 

Ericloewe

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Yes, essentially.
 
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