[Solved] Install / launch in FreeBSD

[davidone]

FreeBSD isn't officially supported by puppeteer so here is what I did to have this project (so helpful right now) running on FreeBSD:

• install puppeteer with PUPPETEER_SKIP_CHROMIUM_DOWNLOAD set to true with:

  $ PUPPETEER_SKIP_CHROMIUM_DOWNLOAD=true npm install puppeteer

• install chromium with an usual:

  # pkg install chromium

• if you have some undefined symbol related to FT_Palette_Select, please update FreeType2
• use this trivial patch:

  
  diff --git a/src/puppeteer-utils.js b/src/puppeteer-utils.js
  index 24bd7ec..012c841 100644
  --- a/src/puppeteer-utils.js
  +++ b/src/puppeteer-utils.js
  @@ -14,10 +14,7 @@ function getBrowser() {
   });
  }
  return puppeteer.launch({

• executablePath: config.browserExecutablePath,
• headless: config.browser_launch_headless,
• // @ts-ignore
• product: config.browser_product,
• executablePath: '/usr/local/bin/chrome', }); }

Tested with:

• FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE-p2 GENERIC amd64
• npm-6.12.1
• puppeteer@3.0.2
• chromium-81.0.4044.129

[andytson]

just: config.ini: browser_executable_path = /usr/local/bin/chrome

[davidone]

The reason was that puppeteer-utils.js couldn't access the config vars but I see that this has been fixed in https://github.com/paulmaunders/delivery-slot-bot/pull/70, really thanks.