Installation of plugins fails in 9.2.1.9.

[Jahn Galt]

I have a home / small business server which up until recently was running Linux (Ubuntu). I recently switched to Freenas after years of stumbling my way through Linux command line stuff, and not having much experience with Linux beyond what I could teach myself.

I am running 9.2.1.9 on an older Dell x86 machine. It is set up and running OK. However, I want to install the Plex plugin. I followed the steps in . All went fine until I needed to install the plugin itself. Plex was not showing up in a list of available plugins. Only four show up - bacula, firefly, minidlna and transmission.

The repository URL was the default (http://download.freenas.org) and I also tried others, but no luck. Through Chrome I downloaded plexmediaserver-0.9.9.4.409_1-i386.pbi and plexmediaserver-0.9.9.2.374-i386.pbi from http://download.freenas.org/plugins/9/x32/, and attempted to install both using the "upload" command. This too failed.

Just to see if it would work, I tried setting up Firefly by selecting it from the list of available plugins. This failed too.

I would simply upgrade to 9.3 but my hardware is 32 bit.

My question: has something changed on the freenas.org site with respect to these plugins, or am I doing something wrong? Since going forward Freenas will be only for 64-bit hardware, am I wasting my time trying to get 9.2.1.9 to work on my old server hardware?

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

EDIT
Read 32bit... if you want to use FreeNAS you need 64bit hardware, there's a ton of information in this forums on what to get.

 

[Jahn Galt]

Hadn't tried creating the jail first; in the video it looks like the installation of the plugin was supposed to create the jail automatically. Since you suggested it, I've tried several times. I was able to load the freenas-pluginjail-9.2-RELEASE.tgz template under templates. However, when I go to create a jail I get an error "a jail with this nickname already exists!" although i have used a unique name for the jail each time I try, and no jails show up on the jails tab.

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

it is supposed to be automatic. but I have noticed on new installs sometimes that plugins won't install till you get that setting worked out

 

[dlavigne]

Yup, this is expected behavior. From http://olddoc.freenas.org/index.php/Available_FreeNAS®_PBIs:

NOTE: only a small sub-set of these PBIs are available for 32-bit systems as most applications are 64-bit.

The 4 you are seeing are the 4 that are available to 32-bit systems.

 

[Jahn Galt]

Thanks dlavigne. Built a new box (64bit 3.2ghz, 8gb RAM) and all works now.