Updating Plex Media Server to Latest FreeNAS Plugin on Command Line in Jail

There are two methods to upgrade Plex Media Server in FreeNAS Jail. 

1. Method 1. Upgrading Plex Media Server to Latest FreeBSD Release. Using this method, you don't have to wait for FreeNAS developers to upgrade Plex Media Server in the plugin repository.
2. Method 2. Upgrading Plex Media Server to Latest FreeNAS Plugin. 

This post is about Method 2, and documents the steps to upgrade Plex Media Server on Command Line.

1. Login or open FreeNAS shell
2. List jails
   

   
   $ jls
   

   
   The output looks like the following
   

   
   $ jls
      JID  IP Address  Hostname     Path
        1              plex         /mnt/Storage/iocage/jails/plex/root
   $

3. Open a shell inside the jail. The command is as follows,
   

   
   jexec ${JID} csh
   

   
   In the above, the jail ID (JID) is 1. Since we can only the csh as root, we open a shell inside the jail as follows

   
   $ sudo jexec 1 csh
   

4. Upgrading the plexmediaserver package. Inside the jail, we do
   

   
   # pkg upgrade plexmediaserver
   

   
   If the installed version is already latest, we should observe something similar to the following,
   

   
   root@plex:/ # pkg upgrade plexmediaserver
   Updating iocage-plugins repository catalogue...
   iocage-plugins repository is up to date.
   All repositories are up to date.
   Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
   Your packages are up to date.
   root@plex:/ #
   

   
   However, if there is a newer version, the upgrade will commerce.
   
   
5. Restart Plex Media Server if it gets upgraded as follows inside the jail,
   

   
   # service plexmediaserver restart