How to install chromium without Pulse and Pipewire

freezr · 2025-12-16T13:44:17+0000

Hi guys,

I don't remember if pkg has an equivalent of apt install $PACKAGE --without-recommends but I don't need either pulse or pipewire; if I could install Chromium without those I would be happier.

Thanks...

nxjoseph · 2025-12-16T14:22:30+0000

Chromium port depend on pulse and pipewire by default, if you don't want them, i guess you have to build chromium itself which is gonna be a very long journey.

freezr · 2025-12-16T14:24:17+0000

Meanwhile I tried to with linux-chrome, it is installed but I can't find it, do you know where it ended up?

nxjoseph · 2025-12-16T14:26:01+0000

freezr said:
Meanwhile I tried to with linux-chrome, it is installed but I can't find it, do you know where it ended up?

It should be installed in /usr/local/bin/google-chrome, you can also list what the package has had installed to your system with the command pkg list linux-chrome.

freezr · 2025-12-16T14:29:44+0000

Sweet! Thank you!

fmc000 · 2025-12-16T15:42:35+0000

nxjoseph said:
Chromium port depend on pulse and pipewire by default, if you don't want them, i guess you have to build chromium itself which is gonna be a very long journey.

Yeah, that's more or less what happens with Libreoffice, which depends on qt6-multimedia which brings in both pipewire and pulseaudio

Compiling Libreoffice from ports without qt6-multimedia, something I don't know if it's even possible, would probably take a couple of days on my spare machine...

loveydovey · 2025-12-16T17:01:31+0000

nxjoseph said:
you have to build chromium itself which is gonna be a very long journey

I just compiled my firefox in /usr/ports/www/firefox, and it was pretty fast and easy.

nxjoseph · 2025-12-16T17:46:45+0000

loveydovey said:
I just compiled my firefox in /usr/ports/www/firefox, and it was pretty fast and easy.

Yeah, thankfully firefox has an ideal compilation process. Chromium is already big and it also depends on another big dependency, electron.

Rich (BB code):

% tail /poudriere/data/logs/bulk/143amd64-default/latest-per-pkg/firefox-esr-140.6.0,2.log
===========================================================================
=======================<phase: package        >============================
===== env: 'PKG_NOTES=build_timestamp ports_top_git_hash ports_top_checkout_unclean port_git_hash port_checkout_unclean built_by' 'PKG_NOTE_build_timestamp=2025-12-09T18:28:53+0000' 'PKG_NOTE_ports_top_git_hash=73d53f276a' 'PKG_NOTE_ports_top_checkout_unclean=no' 'PKG_NOTE_port_git_hash=c552de3006' 'PKG_NOTE_port_checkout_unclean=no' 'PKG_NOTE_built_by=poudriere-git-3.4.4' NO_DEPENDS=yes USER=root UID=0 GID=0
===>  Building packages for firefox-esr-140.6.0,2
===>   Building firefox-esr-140.6.0,2
===========================================================================
=>> Cleaning up wrkdir
===>  Cleaning for firefox-esr-140.6.0,2
build of www/firefox-esr | firefox-esr-140.6.0,2 ended at Tue Dec  9 22:32:58 +03 2025
build time: 01:04:05

cracauer@ · 2025-12-16T18:14:22+0000

Nothing should depend on the pulseaudio server and the pipewire server. They do the same thing, pipewire implements the pulseaudio protocol which Chrome uses as built by default. It should be either or, not both.

Unfortunately the ports and packages mechanism does not have a way to express a boolean OR.