How to install Jackett in a FreeNAS iocage jail
This is how i installed jackett, which works as a proxy server- it translates queries from apps (Sonarr, Radarr, SickRage, CouchPotato, Mylar, Lidarr, DuckieTV, qBittorrent, Nefarious etc.) into tracker-site-specific http queries, parses the html response, then sends results back to the requesting software. This allows for getting recent uploads (like RSS) and performing searches. Jackett is a single repository of maintained indexer scraping & translation logic - removing the burden from other apps.
Table of contents
Getting started
Show some love for Jackett over at https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett.
Prerequisites
- FreeNAS Version: FreeNAS-11.3-RELEASE
- Iocage jail version: 11.3-RELEASE
Installing
root@Jackett:~ # pkg update
root@Jackett:~ # pkg upgrade
Change from `quarterly` to `latest` in `FreeBSD.conf`:
```bash
root@Lidarr:~ # nano /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf
url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest",
Install Jackett:
root@Jackett:~ # pkg install jackett
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
pkg: Repository FreeBSD has a wrong packagesite, need to re-create database
[Jackett] Fetching meta.txz: 100% 944 B 0.9kB/s 00:01
[Jackett] Fetching packagesite.txz: 100% 6 MiB 283.3kB/s 00:23
Processing entries: 100%
FreeBSD repository update completed. 31769 packages processed.
All repositories are up to date.
The following 37 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):
New packages to be INSTALLED:
jackett: 0.12.1486
mono: 5.10.1.57_2
ca_root_nss: 3.49.1
python27: 2.7.17_1
readline: 8.0.1
libffi: 3.2.1_3
py27-pillow: 6.2.0
tk86: 8.6.10_1
libXrender: 0.9.10_2
libX11: 1.6.9,1
libxcb: 1.13.1
libXdmcp: 1.1.3
xorgproto: 2019.2
libXau: 1.0.9
libxml2: 2.9.10
libpthread-stubs: 0.4
libXext: 1.3.4,1
libXScrnSaver: 1.2.3_2
libXft: 2.3.3
fontconfig: 2.12.6,1
expat: 2.2.8
freetype2: 2.10.1
tcl86: 8.6.10
py27-tkinter: 2.7.17_6
py27-setuptools: 44.0.0
webp: 1.1.0
tiff: 4.1.0
jpeg-turbo: 2.0.3
jbigkit: 2.1_1
png: 1.6.37
giflib: 5.2.1
openjpeg: 2.3.1
lcms2: 2.9
py27-olefile: 0.46
libinotify: 20180201_1
curl: 7.68.0
libnghttp2: 1.40.0
Number of packages to be installed: 37
The process will require 415 MiB more space.
104 MiB to be downloaded.
Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
Message from mono-5.10.1.57_2:
--
If you have build/runtime errors with Mono and Gtk# apps please try the
following first:
* Build Mono and gtk+ (x11-toolkits/gtk20) without CPUTYPE and with the
default FreeBSD CFLAGS ('-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe') as Mono has
been known to expose compiler bugs.
* Try building and running Mono with the GENERIC kernel.
- Mono requires SYSVSHM, SYSVMSG, and SYSVSEM which are part of the
GENERIC kernel.
- Removing kernel options or changing defaults to use experimental
options can adversely affect Mono's ability to build and run.
* Remove leftover semaphores / increase semaphore limits.
- Close apps which use Mono and run `ipcs -sbt`. Remove the
semaphores with MODE "--rw-------" and NSEMS "8" using ipcrm (1)
- _OR_ simply reboot which is the safest method.
- On multi-user systems the semaphore limits may need to be increased
from the defaults. The following should comfortably support 30 users.
# echo "kern.ipc.semmni=40" >> /boot/loader.conf
# echo "kern.ipc.semmns=300" >> /boot/loader.conf
* If you are in a jailed environment, ensure System V IPC are enabled.
You can rely on the security.jail.sysvipc_allowed sysctl to check
this status. The following enables this feature on the host system:
# echo "jail_sysvipc_allow=\"YES\"" >> /etc/rc.conf
* Some process information are accessed through /proc (e.g. when using
NUnit) and procfs(5) has to be mounted for these features to work:
# echo "proc /proc procfs rw 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
root@Jackett:~ #
To make Jackett start as a service on boot, enter the following command:
root@Jackett:~ # sysrc "jackett_enable=YES"
jackett_enable: -> YES
.. or you could edit this file manually:
root@Jackett:~ # nano /etc/rc.conf
Update Jackett
For some reason, the owner:group of the folder which jackett resides (/usr/local/share/jackett) was owned by a random UID:GID. If this is the case with you, you will be unable to update jackett automatically through the GUI.
Automatic update
Check which version of Jackett you are running by looking at the bottom in the web-gui. E.g.: Jackett Version 0.12.1632.0
If you have started Jackett, ensure jackett service is stopped by entering the following:
service jackett stop
Change ownership of the /usr/local/share/jackett folder.
root@Jackett:/usr/local/share # chown -R jackett:jackett jackett
Then start jackett again and click “Check for updates”:
service jackett start
I now have successfully updated to Jackett Version 0.12.1815.0
Manual update
If the above did not fix your problem, you can do a manual update by grabbing the latest version from the GitHub repository.
If you have started Jackett, ensure jackett service is stopped by entering the following:
service jackett stop
Next we will need to download the latest version of Jackett from its GitHub repository. First you will need to go to Jackett GitHub releases page and make a note of the latest version number. At the time of the writing this article, the latest version is v0.11.802. https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett/releases
Download the latest version with this command (replacing “v0.12.1632” with the latest version found above):
fetch https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett/releases/download/v0.12.1632/Jackett.Binaries.Mono.tar.gz -o /usr/local/share
Unzip the downloaded file:
root@Jackett:~ # tar -xzvf /usr/local/share/Jackett.Binaries.Mono.tar.gz -C /usr/local/share
Delete the downloaded tar.gz file:
root@Jackett:~ # rm /usr/local/share/Jackett.Binaries.Mono.tar.gz
Make a backup of the original pkg installation:
root@Jackett:~ # mv /usr/local/share/jackett /usr/local/share/jackett-old
mv our extracted Jackett binaries to original folder:
root@Jackett:~ # mv /usr/local/share/Jackett /usr/local/share/jackett
Then start jackett again
service jackett start
Authors
Mr. Johnson