Michael Shriver Senior Computer Specialist - College of the Environment

Manually Updating Plex Media Server package on FreeBSD

Issue: Plex Media Server has released a critical bug fix, but the package has not hit the FreeBSD pkg/ports repos, yet.

Update the ports tree:

sh```

git clone https://git.freebsd.org/ports.git –branch main /usr/ports

-- or --

sh```
# cd /usr/ports
# git pull

Retrieve the Plex Media Server packages

Navigate to the Plex Downloads site: https://www.plex.tv/media-server-downloads/?cat=computer&plat=freebsd

Verify the version is correct, and write down the Version-string and suffix.

Modify the port:

sh```

cd /usr/ports/multimedia/plexmediaserver-plexpass


Update Makefile to match the version strings from the download:

DISTVERSION= 1.43.3.10896 DISTVERSIONSUFFIX= cb3ebc72d


Update port checksums and download files:

sh```
# make fetch && make checksum

Build and install the port:

sh```

make

make install