Running Brave Browser on FreeBSD 12.1 using Linuxulator Centos 7 (Netflix Works)

How to Run Brave Browser in FreeBSD 12.1 with Linuxulator C7

I assume you have a working setup with sound etc... for the linuxulator and mounted devfs on /compat/linux/dev along with a link from /tmp to /compat/linux/dev/shm

link /tmp /compat/linux/dev/shm  in devfs.conf

The next step would be installing yum package manager which you can do so by extracting first the yum rpm itself and then all dependencies manually until its satisfied.

For Yum

 python.x86_64 2.7.5-88.el7
 cpio.x86_64 2.11-27.el7
 diffutils.x86_64 3.3-5.el7
 pygpgme.x86_64 0.3-9.el7
 pyliblzma.x86_64 0.5.3-11.el7
 python.x86_64 2.7.5-88.el7
 python-iniparse.noarch 0.4-9.el7
 python-urlgrabber.noarch 3.10-10.el7
 pyxattr.x86_64 0.5.1-5.el7
 rpm.x86_64 4.11.3-43.el7
 rpm-python.x86_64 4.11.3-43.el7
 yum-metadata-parser.x86_64 1.1.4-10.el7
 yum-plugin-fastestmirror.noarch 1.1.31-54.el7_8

For Rpm

 libdb-utils.x86_64 5.3.21-25.el7
 coreutils.x86_64 8.22-24.el7
 curl.x86_64 7.29.0-57.el7_8.1
 libacl.x86_64 2.2.51-15.el7
 audit-libs.x86_64 2.8.5-4.el7
 bzip2-libs.x86_64 1.0.6-13.el7
 libcap.x86_64 2.22-11.el7
 libdb.x86_64 5.3.21-25.el7
 elfutils-libelf.x86_64 0.176-4.el7
 lua.x86_64 5.1.4-15.el7
 xz-libs.x86_64 5.2.2-1.el7
 nss.x86_64 3.44.0-7.el7_7
 popt.x86_64 1.13-16.el7
 rpm-libs.x86_64 4.11.3-43.el7
 libselinux.x86_64 2.5-15.el7
 zlib.x86_64 1.2.7-18.el7

Download and extract them to /compat/linux

After that yum only needs /dev/urandom since you have mounted devfs on /compat/linux/dev you don`t need to do anything, yum should run now.

Now you can download the brave browser rpm from https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/  (Nightly releases do work too)

Install the rpm package using yum install local rpm

It will complain about glibc but list the dependencies, install all required dependencies using yum.

After dependencies are finished installing, install the rpm with nodeps flag

rpm -ivh brave-browser-nightly-1.17.9-1.x86_64.rpm --nodeps  (Like this)

It will not run of course because of glibc

Download glibc http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-2.18.tar.gz

configure it with the prefix --prefix=/opt/glibc-2.18   and install

patch the brave binary for the new interpreter

Yum install patchelf

patchelf --set-interpreter /opt/glibc-2.18/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 --set-rpath /opt/glibc-2.18/lib:/usr/lib64 /opt/brave.com/brave-nightly/brave

run the browser now

#!/compat/linux/bin/sh

SCRIPT=$(readlink -f "$0")
USR_DIRECTORY=$(readlink -f $(dirname $SCRIPT)/..)

BRAVE_PATH="/opt/brave.com/brave-nightly/brave"


export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/steam-utils/lib64/fakeudev:/usr/local/steam-utils/lib64/fakepulse:/lib64/nss
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/steam-utils/lib64/webfix/webfix.so

"$BRAVE_PATH"  --no-sandbox  --no-zygote --in-process-gpu --v=0 "$@"

You can save above us /bin/brave

You need steam-utils from https://github.com/shkhln/linuxulator-steam-utils/

If brave complains for missing libraries at startup copy them from /usr/lib64/  to /opt/glibc-2.18/lib/

That`s basically it.

When you first visit netflix it will ask to download it then ask again to enable, netflix works after that.

Sometimes when you exit the browser, there is a segfault, that`s the only issue i had so far.

Here is the ldd output which lists dynamic dependencies of Brave Browser after everything

linux_vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007ffffffff000)
    libdl.so.2 => /opt/glibc-2.18/lib/libdl.so.2 (0x000000080c600000)
    libpthread.so.0 => /opt/glibc-2.18/lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x000000080ca00000)
    librt.so.1 => /opt/glibc-2.18/lib/librt.so.1 (0x000000080ce00000)
    libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /opt/glibc-2.18/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0x000000080d200000)
    libglib-2.0.so.0 => /opt/glibc-2.18/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x000000080d600000)
    libnss3.so => /usr/lib64/libnss3.so (0x000000080da00000)
    libnssutil3.so => /usr/lib64/libnssutil3.so (0x000000080de00000)
    libsmime3.so => /usr/lib64/libsmime3.so (0x000000080e200000)
    libnspr4.so => /usr/lib64/libnspr4.so (0x000000080e600000)
    libatk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libatk-1.0.so.0 (0x000000080ea00000)
    libatk-bridge-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libatk-bridge-2.0.so.0 (0x000000080ee00000)
    libX11.so.6 => /opt/glibc-2.18/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x000000080f200000)
    libX11-xcb.so.1 => /opt/glibc-2.18/lib/libX11-xcb.so.1 (0x000000080f600000)
    libxcb.so.1 => /opt/glibc-2.18/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0x000000080fa00000)
    libxcb-dri3.so.0 => /opt/glibc-2.18/lib/libxcb-dri3.so.0 (0x000000080fe00000)
    libXcomposite.so.1 => /opt/glibc-2.18/lib/libXcomposite.so.1 (0x0000000810200000)
    libXdamage.so.1 => /opt/glibc-2.18/lib/libXdamage.so.1 (0x0000000810600000)
    libXext.so.6 => /opt/glibc-2.18/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x0000000810a00000)
    libXfixes.so.3 => /opt/glibc-2.18/lib/libXfixes.so.3 (0x0000000810e00000)
    libcups.so.2 => /usr/lib64/libcups.so.2 (0x0000000811200000)
    libdbus-1.so.3 => /opt/glibc-2.18/lib/libdbus-1.so.3 (0x0000000811600000)
    libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libexpat.so.1 (0x0000000811a00000)
    libdrm.so.2 => /usr/lib64/libdrm.so.2 (0x0000000811e00000)
    libgio-2.0.so.0 => /opt/glibc-2.18/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0 (0x0000000812200000)
    libm.so.6 => /opt/glibc-2.18/lib/libm.so.6 (0x0000000812600000)
    libXrandr.so.2 => /opt/glibc-2.18/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0x0000000812a00000)
    libgbm.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libgbm.so.1 (0x0000000812e00000)
    libasound.so.2 => /usr/lib64/libasound.so.2 (0x0000000813200000)
    libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 => /opt/glibc-2.18/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 (0x0000000813600000)
    libpango-1.0.so.0 => /opt/glibc-2.18/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0x0000000813a00000)
    libcairo.so.2 => /opt/glibc-2.18/lib/libcairo.so.2 (0x0000000813e00000)
    libatspi.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libatspi.so.0 (0x0000000814200000)
    libgtk-3.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libgtk-3.so.0 (0x0000000814600000)
    libgdk-3.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libgdk-3.so.0 (0x0000000815000000)
    libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 (0x0000000815400000)
    libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x0000000815800000)
    libc.so.6 => /opt/glibc-2.18/lib/libc.so.6 (0x0000000815c00000)
    /opt/glibc-2.18/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 => /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000000001021000)
    libpcre.so.1 => /lib64/libpcre.so.1 (0x0000000816000000)
    libffi.so.6 => /lib64/libffi.so.6 (0x0000000816400000)
    libplc4.so => /lib64/libplc4.so (0x0000000816800000)
    libplds4.so => /lib64/libplds4.so (0x0000000816c00000)
    libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /lib64/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0x0000000817000000)
    libXau.so.6 => /lib64/libXau.so.6 (0x0000000817400000)
    libgssapi_krb5.so.2 => /lib64/libgssapi_krb5.so.2 (0x0000000817800000)
    libkrb5.so.3 => /lib64/libkrb5.so.3 (0x0000000817c00000)
    libk5crypto.so.3 => /lib64/libk5crypto.so.3 (0x0000000818000000)
    libcom_err.so.2 => /lib64/libcom_err.so.2 (0x0000000818400000)
    libssl.so.10 => /lib64/libssl.so.10 (0x0000000818800000)
    libcrypto.so.10 => /lib64/libcrypto.so.10 (0x0000000818c00000)
    libavahi-common.so.3 => /lib64/libavahi-common.so.3 (0x0000000819200000)
    libavahi-client.so.3 => /lib64/libavahi-client.so.3 (0x0000000819600000)
    libcrypt.so.1 => /lib64/libcrypt.so.1 (0x0000000819a00000)
    libz.so.1 => /lib64/libz.so.1 (0x0000000819e00000)
    libsystemd.so.0 => /lib64/libsystemd.so.0 (0x000000081a200000)
    libselinux.so.1 => /lib64/libselinux.so.1 (0x000000081a600000)
    libresolv.so.2 => /lib64/libresolv.so.2 (0x000000081aa00000)
    libmount.so.1 => /lib64/libmount.so.1 (0x000000081ae00000)
    libXrender.so.1 => /lib64/libXrender.so.1 (0x000000081b200000)
    libwayland-server.so.0 => /lib64/libwayland-server.so.0 (0x000000081b600000)
    libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /lib64/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 (0x000000081ba00000)
    libfontconfig.so.1 => /lib64/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x000000081be00000)
    libfreetype.so.6 => /lib64/libfreetype.so.6 (0x000000081c200000)
    libthai.so.0 => /lib64/libthai.so.0 (0x000000081c600000)
    libfribidi.so.0 => /lib64/libfribidi.so.0 (0x000000081ca00000)
    libpixman-1.so.0 => /lib64/libpixman-1.so.0 (0x000000081ce00000)
    libEGL.so.1 => /lib64/libEGL.so.1 (0x000000081d200000)
    libpng15.so.15 => /lib64/libpng15.so.15 (0x000000081d600000)
    libxcb-shm.so.0 => /lib64/libxcb-shm.so.0 (0x000000081da00000)
    libxcb-render.so.0 => /lib64/libxcb-render.so.0 (0x000000081de00000)
    libGL.so.1 => /lib64/libGL.so.1 (0x000000081e200000)
    libXi.so.6 => /lib64/libXi.so.6 (0x000000081e600000)
    libcairo-gobject.so.2 => /lib64/libcairo-gobject.so.2 (0x000000081ea00000)
    libwayland-client.so.0 => /lib64/libwayland-client.so.0 (0x000000081ee00000)
    libepoxy.so.0 => /lib64/libepoxy.so.0 (0x000000081f200000)
    libXinerama.so.1 => /lib64/libXinerama.so.1 (0x000000081f600000)
    libXcursor.so.1 => /lib64/libXcursor.so.1 (0x000000081fa00000)
    libxkbcommon.so.0 => /lib64/libxkbcommon.so.0 (0x000000081fe00000)
    libwayland-cursor.so.0 => /lib64/libwayland-cursor.so.0 (0x0000000820200000)
    libwayland-egl.so.1 => /lib64/libwayland-egl.so.1 (0x0000000820600000)
    libkrb5support.so.0 => /lib64/libkrb5support.so.0 (0x0000000820a00000)
    libkeyutils.so.1 => /lib64/libkeyutils.so.1 (0x0000000820e00000)
    libfreebl3.so => /lib64/libfreebl3.so (0x0000000821200000)
    libcap.so.2 => /lib64/libcap.so.2 (0x0000000821600000)
    liblzma.so.5 => /lib64/liblzma.so.5 (0x0000000821a00000)
    liblz4.so.1 => /lib64/liblz4.so.1 (0x0000000821e00000)
    libgcrypt.so.11 => /lib64/libgcrypt.so.11 (0x0000000822200000)
    libgpg-error.so.0 => /lib64/libgpg-error.so.0 (0x0000000822600000)
    libdw.so.1 => /lib64/libdw.so.1 (0x0000000822a00000)
    libblkid.so.1 => /lib64/libblkid.so.1 (0x0000000822e00000)
    libuuid.so.1 => /lib64/libuuid.so.1 (0x0000000823200000)
    libharfbuzz.so.0 => /lib64/libharfbuzz.so.0 (0x0000000823600000)
    libbz2.so.1 => /lib64/libbz2.so.1 (0x0000000823a00000)
    libGLdispatch.so.0 => /lib64/libGLdispatch.so.0 (0x0000000823e00000)
    libGLX.so.0 => /lib64/libGLX.so.0 (0x0000000824200000)
    libattr.so.1 => /lib64/libattr.so.1 (0x0000000824600000)
    libelf.so.1 => /lib64/libelf.so.1 (0x0000000824a00000)
    libgraphite2.so.3 => /lib64/libgraphite2.so.3 (0x0000000824e00000)