Updating Couch Potato Server - ReadyNAS-centric

Hey Guys, like some of you, I have been unable to update my Couch Potato Server for some time now. It was kinda driving me nuts.

This is what I was seeing over and over:



Anyway, I think I figured out how to update, but still seems I am missing a few things. Here is how I did it.

First, I found a few websites that gave me some clues:
https://couchpota.to/forum/viewtopic.ph ... b79e0f0c4e
https://github.com/RuudBurger/CouchPota ... ssues/1701
https://github.com/RuudBurger/CouchPota ... issues/670
https://couchpota.to/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2077

If you look at the sites, it just loops back to the same topic. To me, this did not really answer my question of "how to update". Now, I know some of you Linux gurus' will say "It is right there, manually update". But what does this mean? Well I might have bullied my way through it.

First, download the tarball from here:
https://github.com/RuudBurger/CouchPota ... all/master

You can download one of two ways:
1) Use your web browser and sve it to your local drive, then copy the tar file onto a share on your ReadyNas.
2) do a wget from SSH.

I personally found the first option the easiest. Once I downloaded the TAR file, I unTAR'd it on my Mac, which gave me a folder:


Next, I shut down Couch Potato Server via FrontView on the ReadyNAS. Once the service has stopped, I SSH into the box.

First thing is first, change the user and group ownerships of the file you just downloaded to:

chown -R admin:admin /c/media/RuudBurger-CouchPotatoServer-06a211a

In my case, I saved the unTAR'd folder in the default media drive. The above will change the user and group ownerships to what cpserver is expecting on the ReadyNAS.

Once that is done, update permissions:

chmod -R 777 /c/media/RuudBurger-CouchPotatoServer-06a211a

Last thing I did was remove any sticky bit from the directories:

chmod -R a-s /c/media/RuudBurger-CouchPotatoServer-06a211a

Let's make a copy of all the contents of our current /usr/share/cpserver/ contents, just in case (call me paranoid):

cp -r /usr/share/cpserver/* /c/media/cpserver/

This way, if there is a mistake made, one can just copy it back, no harm, no foul :)

Ok, good to go. Now we are ready to copy the contents of the downloaded, unTAR'd files into the ReadyNAS:

cp -r /c/media/RuudBurger-CouchPotatoServer-06a211a/* /usr/share/cpserver/

Done and done. You can restart your Couch Potato Server via Frontview. Mine started up right away and all my settings were intact!

First thing I noticed was the updated GUI. Nice. But it still gave me a download new version message? I check the logs, some ERRNO (permission denied)! Yes, this is an easy fix! Chown to the rescue again. I found myself doing a bunch of manual ones, so I said.. a the heck with it and did:

chown -R admin:admin /usr/share/cpserver/*

Ran the updater and all was well! Here is the version I was running versus what I am running after the above:



Here are some screenshots of the new GUI and no more errors and the updater works now :)

Here is the general tab, specifically on the updater portion -- no GIT commands!


Here is the new home page/tab. I likey :)


New Search Provider section:


Anyway, you guys get the idea.

This might not be a big deal for some of you, but it was for me, especially since I am getting more comfortable on CLI's.

I decided to put this up since there were no tutorials on how, specifically to do it on the ReadyNAS platforms.

If this helps one person, I am happy :)