Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 20:06:53 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Joe B <jcb2023az@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trying to get spotify working Message-ID: <20231121200653.1b8cae0e.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20231121000443.3e975f52@freebsd2> References: <20231121000443.3e975f52@freebsd2>
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On Tue, 21 Nov 2023 00:04:43 -0800, Joe B wrote: > So I followed this post > > https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/watching-spotify-and-listening-to-netflix-in-2023.90695/#post-626065 > > It was asking me a lot of prompts and i was like im just going to see > if it works > > After it failed to compile i was like let me remove it. so i did a make > deinstall clean. After about 30 mins i went back to the tty where it > was and it was skipping packages that weren't there and eventually i > just stopped it. went to startx and i was missing lots of modules. I > reinstaled and everything is workinga again exepct no spotify > > Question is when is it safe to use make deinstall ? When you are inside the directory of the official port, i. e., /usr/ports/<categor>/<port>, that you want to deinstall. See "man 7 ports" for details. The files /usr/ports/Makefile and /usr/ports/Mk/* contain the implementation of "deinstall" at the possible locations. > I was wondering since the forum post had me in 1 directory that wasn't > offical is that the reason why it removed stuff at the root level? That is quite possible. The thread in the web forum instructs you to do this: % sudo pkg install chromium # 117.0.5938.149_2 or higher % sudo pkg install foreign-cdm % sudo sysrc linux_enable="YES" % sudo service linux start % git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports % cd freebsd-ports/www/linux-widevine-cdm % make % sudo make install This seems to be relative to your current location whatever that might be ($PWD). From that (undefined) point, a directory freebsd-ports with the subdirecotires www and linux-widevine-cdm will be created. If this happens inside /usr/ports (which it shouldn't, as it also requires root permissions to write to there), a "make deinstall"... well, actually this sounds wrong. I have no idea what's inside the git repository, so any unwanted side effect could be possible, like a temporary change to /usr/ports... If you assume that you run "make deinstall" from the /usr/ports/www directory, it will iterate though the ports found there and try to deinstall them. If there is a /usr/ports/www/linux-widevine-cdm, and you run "make deinstall" from there, it will only deinstall the linux-widevine-cdm port - of course the official version. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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