FreeBSD Package

[alucryd 344]

FYI I'm working on a patch to update to the latest version and improve parts of the official freebsd package, and will probably be taking over maintenance of the package from now on.

[nomoo 1]

On 1/3/2026 at 11:43 PM, alucryd said:

FYI I'm working on a patch to update to the latest version and improve parts of the official freebsd package, and will probably be taking over maintenance of the package from now on.

Do you need any help with that?

I'm already using 4.9.1.90 version but without bundled ffmpeg/ffprobe.

[redwards 2]

FYI dependency dotnet8 doesn't exist currently in the "latest" package tree, you have to switch to quarterly.

[alucryd 344]

@redwardsIs that a common occurrence? Thought everything had to go through latest before landing in quarterly.
@nomooI'm almost done, the changes actually made it to our own latest beta package, so I can catch issues before submitting them to the official package.

[nomoo 1]

7 hours ago, alucryd said:

@redwardsIs that a common occurrence? Thought everything had to go through latest before landing in quarterly.
@nomooI'm almost done, the changes actually made it to our own latest beta package, so I can catch issues before submitting them to the official package.good news!

Good news!

Also, imho, latest beta should be 'emby-devel' in ports tree/packages. Anyway, ready to test. 

[redwards 2]

It seemed to be just that day, I checked fresh ports and it also was not listed, next day both have it. Might be a build lag but strange that quarterly was first.

[GMason 1]

Hi. I am an Emby première user running it on a FreeBSD jail and I just would like to thank the maintainers of the FreeBSD version. Your work is much appreciated.

[chaosmonger777 0]

Just curious: any news on this? The maintainer is still active - obviously on occasions on ports he actively uses. Don't know why he doesn't drop the maintainership on Emby!

Edited February 15 by chaosmonger777

[alucryd 344]

@chaosmonger777I should be able to submit a PR to the ports tree very soon, probably by the end of the day.

[alucryd 344]

And patch has been submitted: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=293298

[chaosmonger777 0]

I don't want to be the arsehole around here.... BUT: has anyone told this so called "maintainer" that there is another version out now for TWO weeks???? Sorry, but I am so sick of it!

[Luke 43532]

On 9/20/2026 at 8:00 PM, chaosmonger777 said:

I don't want to be the arsehole around here.... BUT: has anyone told this so called "maintainer" that there is another version out now for TWO weeks???? Sorry, but I am so sick of it!

Hi, were you able to get updated to the latest version ?

[karmantyu 5]

Will there be a FrreBSD 15 package anytime soon?

[Samkook 23]

12 hours ago, karmantyu said:

Will there be a FrreBSD 15 package anytime soon?

There is, I'm on FreeBSD 15 and 4.9.3.0_6 is on there.

Unless you mean the latest version, which I assume has a conflict of some kind so it's not available yet.

[Calando 1]

On 10/26/2026 at 7:28 PM, Samkook said:

There is, I'm on FreeBSD 15 and 4.9.3.0_6 is on there.

Unless you mean the latest version, which I assume has a conflict of some kind so it's not available yet.

Actually there are current package build in the GitHub repo:

https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby.Releases/releases/download/4.10.2.0/emby-server-freebsd15_4.10.2.0_amd64.pkg

and also the latest beta:

https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby.Releases/releases/download/4.11.0.11/emby-server-freebsd15_4.11.0.11_amd64.pkg

pkg add -f <pkg_link> to install. But you're right, the freshport repos only have 4.9.3.0_6 as latest version. However, in the past I never had any problems installing the packages directly from the Emby GitHub as indicated.