docs: added FreeBSD installation instructions

[ChromiumOS-Guy]

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Type of change

• Bug fix
• Feature
• Documentation update

Description

I added Tier 2 FreeBSD support using the linuxemu (aka Linux ABI)
which is very simple to setup.

Checklist

• any anime playing
• bumped version

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• next, prev and replay work
• -c history and continue work
• -d downloads work
• -s syncplay works
• -q quality works
• -v vlc works
• -e select episode works
• -S select index works
• -r range selection works
• --skip ani-skip works
• --skip-title ani-skip title argument works
• --no-detach no detach works
• --dub and regular (sub) mode both work
• all providers return links (not necessarily on a single anime, use debug mode to confirm)

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• -h help info is up to date
• Readme is up to date
• Man page is up to date

Additional Testcases

• The safe bet: One Piece
• Episode 0: Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata ♭
• Unicode: Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata ♭
• Non-whole episodes: Tensei shitara slime datta ken (ep. 24.5, ep. 24.9)

[ChromiumOS-Guy]

forgot to mention that ani-skip doesn't work on FreeBSD , should add that warning first

[71zenith]

Does ani-cli not work without linuxemu on FreeBSD?
We aim to remain posix compatible therefore it should run on any unix system without any layer.
It's just a shellscript afterall

[71zenith]

Am open to adding this to docs , but I would like to not have any more moving parts than necessary.

[ChromiumOS-Guy]

I am not near my pc right now but I'll check if it works without linux emu (by disabling it)

also its not modified it just works (except ani-skip which i need to investigate further)

if by moving parts you mean more OSs to support that I agree , though I did state in the docs it is not supported so you are committing to nothing long term so I hope that helps (I'll try to support it though).

[ChromiumOS-Guy]

also how does one enter debug mode on ani-cli because I didn't find any docs for it (though that's probably me being stupid)

[71zenith]

By moving parts, i meant linuxemu being a middleman

[71zenith]

also how does one enter debug mode on ani-cli because I didn't find any docs for it (though that's probably me being stupid)

debug?
if u just want to print the links then
ANI_CLI_PLAYER=debug ani-cli <args>
if u want it to print all the commands being run then
sh -x $(which ani-cli) <args>
sh -x is universal to any shell script so using it on ani-skip will also work

[71zenith]

I am not near my pc right now but I'll check if it works without linux emu (by disabling it)

also its not modified it just works (except ani-skip which i need to investigate further)

if by moving parts you mean more OSs to support that I agree , though I did state in the docs it is not supported so you are committing to nothing long term so I hope that helps (I'll try to support it though).

Fair, I've employed quite a number of hacks to get ani-skip working. Do report on what error ani-skip exits. Ill try to fix it.

[ChromiumOS-Guy]

Np, and thanksfor the help with the debug stuff, I'll get to it in ~1.5h when I'm home.

[ChromiumOS-Guy]

yeah turns out you don't need linux emu , so all is good on that part (removed it from docs)
I just assumed that from some reason even though it says in the docs its for unix based OSs
which is just fun, sorry for the confusion.

[ChromiumOS-Guy]

well the debug stuff says all linkes fetched which is nice, also I noticed this:

dropbox Links Fetched
sharepoint Links Fetched
sed: 1: "s|^#.*x||g; s|,.*|p|g;  ...": unterminated substitute pattern
gogoanime Links Fetched

it seems to have no effect on functionality (and frankly I have no Idea what you do with sed editor)
also with debug I was able to get this:

$ ANI_CLI_PLAYER=debug ani-cli one piece --skip
Skip times not found!

so I just tried a movie (betting those probably had time skips) and it works just fine!

[ChromiumOS-Guy]

forgot to say, yes --skip-title also works

[ChromiumOS-Guy]

so yeah everything works, no linuxemu required If you pull I'll probably update this if something needs to be changed (which knowing FreeBSD probably means never or maybe maybe when FreeBSD 15 drops proper)

[justchokingaround]

please remove the part where each dependency is installed on its own, it's redundant

[ChromiumOS-Guy]

Sure!, done.
I just copied the style of the Steamdeck support but I don't mind at all.

[justchokingaround]

great, thanks for your contribution!