How To: Install py-paperless-ngx on FreeBSD 13
Disclaimer: TrueNAS CORE 13.3-RELEASE has been released, and if you update to it, you can just run pkg install py-paperless-ngx and profit! If, for some reason, you can’t update to 13.3, this guide might still be useful. Since February of 2024, thanks to Michael Gmelin (grembo), Paperless-ngx is available as an official port for FreeBSD: deskutils/py-paperless-ngx. But upon closer inspection, one can see that the port is only available for FreeBSD versions 14 and 15. FreeBSD 14 is available since November 2023, so users have had some time to upgrade to it and, therefore, there’s no problem with py-paperless-ngx not being available for FreeBSD 13, right? Well… that could be the case, were it not for some of us, users of TrueNAS CORE, currently on version 13.0-U6.1, which runs on FreeBSD 13.1, and will see its final version, 13.3, which was expected to launch in Q2 2024, running on FreeBSD 13.3. So we are somewhat stuck with FreeBSD 13. At least until something like zVault is able to offer an upgrade path to TrueNAS CORE users. ...