Post #1870187

Toot 1/4 Got @anthropic Claude Code running on FreeBSD 14.4 via the Linux compat layer! Here's how 🧵 #FreeBSD #ClaudeCode #Anthropic Toot 2/4 Enable Linux compat (Rocky Linux 9 base): doas sysrc linux_enable="YES" doas service linux start doas pkg install linux_base-rl9 Download Node.js Linux binary into the chroot: doas mkdir -p /compat/linux/tmp /compat/linux/usr/local doas fetch -o /compat/linux/tmp/node.tar.xz https://nodejs.org/dist/v22.0.0/node-v22.0.0-linux-x64.tar.xz doas tar xf /compat/linux/tmp/node.tar.xz -C /compat/linux/usr/local/ --strip-components=1 Toot 3/4 3. Fix DNS and install Claude Code: doas cp /etc/resolv.conf /compat/linux/etc/resolv.conf doas chroot /compat/linux /bin/bash -c "/usr/local/bin/npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code" Mount your home directory: doas mkdir -p /compat/linux/home/YOUR_USER doas mount -t nullfs /home/YOUR_USER /compat/linux/home/YOUR_USER Toot 4/4 5. Add alias to ~/.zshrc: alias claude='doas chroot /compat/linux /bin/bash -c "cd /home/YOUR_USER && /usr/local/bin/claude"' Then source ~/.zshrc and run claude 🎉 Note: remove any broken FreeBSD npm install first with doas npm uninstall -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code