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Port details
manuals Browse, search GNOME developer documentation
49.0 devel on this many watch lists=0 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 49.0Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: gnome@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2026-03-29 15:33:07
Last Update: 2026-04-01 01:01:25
Commit Hash: 22c4f59
Also Listed In: gnome
License: GPLv3+
WWW:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/manuals
Description:
Manuals indexes your developer manuals and provides robust browsing and searching capabilities. It supports the devhelp documentation format used by many libraries integrating with the GTK platform.
Homepage    cgit ¦ Codeberg ¦ GitHub ¦ GitLab ¦ SVNWeb - no subversion history for this port

Manual pages:
FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. share/glib-2.0/schemas/app.devsuite.Manuals.gschema.xml
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/manuals-49.0/catalog.mk
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/manuals-49.0/LICENSE
  4. /usr/local/share/licenses/manuals-49.0/GPLv3+
  5. bin/manuals
  6. share/applications/app.devsuite.Manuals.desktop
  7. share/dbus-1/services/app.devsuite.Manuals.service
  8. share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/app.devsuite.Manuals.svg
  9. share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps/app.devsuite.Manuals-symbolic.svg
  10. share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/manuals.mo
  11. share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/manuals.mo
  12. share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/manuals.mo
  13. share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/manuals.mo
  14. share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/manuals.mo
  15. share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/manuals.mo
  16. share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/manuals.mo
  17. share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/manuals.mo
  18. share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/manuals.mo
  19. share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/manuals.mo
  20. share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/manuals.mo
  21. share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/manuals.mo
  22. share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/manuals.mo
  23. share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/manuals.mo
  24. share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/manuals.mo
  25. share/locale/ia/LC_MESSAGES/manuals.mo
  26. share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/manuals.mo
  27. share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/manuals.mo
  28. share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/manuals.mo
  29. share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/manuals.mo
  30. share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/manuals.mo
  31. share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/manuals.mo
  32. share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/manuals.mo
  33. share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/manuals.mo
  34. share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/manuals.mo
  35. share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/manuals.mo
  36. share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/manuals.mo
  37. share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/manuals.mo
  38. share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/manuals.mo
  39. share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/manuals.mo
  40. share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/manuals.mo
  41. share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/manuals.mo
  42. share/metainfo/app.devsuite.Manuals.metainfo.xml
  43. @owner
  44. @group
  45. @mode
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • manuals>0:devel/manuals
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/devel/manuals/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install devel/manuals
  • pkg install manuals
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: manuals
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1774714622 SHA256 (gnome/manuals-49.0.tar.xz) = ed6446c4c2d29c2b9062b2a8ca7271cdbacfc78cfdb4fdcd0f3bc48d8c9e7f08 SIZE (gnome/manuals-49.0.tar.xz) = 1262344

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
manuals
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest49.049.0---n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly49.049.0---n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest49.049.0------
FreeBSD:14:quarterly49.049.0------
FreeBSD:15:latest49.049.0n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:15:quarterly49.049.0n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:16:latest49.049.0n/a-n/an/a--
Dependencies
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
Build dependencies:
  1. appstreamcli : devel/appstream
  2. update-desktop-database : devel/desktop-file-utils
  3. gettext-tools>=0.26 : devel/gettext-tools
  4. meson : devel/meson
  5. ninja : devel/ninja
  6. pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
Runtime dependencies:
  1. update-desktop-database : devel/desktop-file-utils
Library dependencies:
  1. libgom-1.0.so : databases/gom
  2. libdex-1.so : devel/libdex
  3. libpanel-1.so : x11-toolkits/libpanel
  4. libwebkitgtk-6.0.so : www/webkit2-gtk@60
  5. libfoundry-1.so : devel/foundry
  6. libatk-1.0.so : accessibility/at-spi2-core
  7. libglib-2.0.so : devel/glib20
  8. libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
  9. libgtk-4.so : x11-toolkits/gtk40
  10. libadwaita-1.so : x11-toolkits/libadwaita
  11. libharfbuzz.so : print/harfbuzz
  12. libpango-1.0.so : x11-toolkits/pango
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
No options to configure
Options name:
devel_manuals
USES:
compiler:c11 desktop-file-utils gettext-tools gnome meson pkgconfig tar:xz
FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
Master Sites:
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  1. https://download.gnome.org/sources/manuals/49/
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Number of commits found: 2

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
CommitCreditsLog message
49.0
01 Apr 2026 01:01:25
commit hash: 22c4f599e0d1911ea988f955327979d96ff4166dcommit hash: 22c4f599e0d1911ea988f955327979d96ff4166dcommit hash: 22c4f599e0d1911ea988f955327979d96ff4166dcommit hash: 22c4f599e0d1911ea988f955327979d96ff4166d files touched by this commit
Don Lewis (truckman) search for other commits by this committer
devel/manuals: desktop-file-utils *is* needed

Re-add USES=desktop-file-utils to unbreak build.  No PORTREVISION bump
because te build was broken.

Fixes:		9bbc918dbb5e7b795f926e275dbae7070a696aa6
49.0
29 Mar 2026 15:29:45
commit hash: 9bbc918dbb5e7b795f926e275dbae7070a696aa6commit hash: 9bbc918dbb5e7b795f926e275dbae7070a696aa6commit hash: 9bbc918dbb5e7b795f926e275dbae7070a696aa6commit hash: 9bbc918dbb5e7b795f926e275dbae7070a696aa6 files touched by this commit
Don Lewis (truckman) search for other commits by this committer
Author: Olivier Duchateau
devel/manuals: new port

New port: devel/manuals: browse, search GNOME developer documentation

Manuals indexes your developer manuals and provides robust browsing
and searching capabilities. It supports the devhelp documentation format
used by many libraries integrating with the GTK platform.

desktop-file-utils is not needed. (truckman)

PR:		294103

Number of commits found: 2