| Port details |
- flnews Fast and lightweight Usenet newsreader with FLTK GUI
- 1.3.0 news
 =1      Package not present on quarterly.This port was created during this quarter. It will be in the next quarterly branch but not the current one. - Maintainer: kbowling@FreeBSD.org
- Port Added: 2026-05-21 03:39:04
- Last Update: 2026-05-21 03:36:25
- Commit Hash: fb4f65c
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- License: FLNEWS
- WWW:
- https://micha.freeshell.org/flnews/
- Description:
- flnews is a fast and lightweight Usenet newsreader with a GUI based on the
FLTK toolkit, intended for POSIX-conformant operating systems.
Features:
- Minimal external dependencies
- Standards-compliant NNTP communication and MIME handling
- Transport Layer Security (TLS) with optional CRL checking
- Cancel-Lock / Cancel-Key authentication for Cancel and Supersede
- NNTP COMPRESS extension (DEFLATE) when zlib is available
- Shared group state in '~/.newsrc' for interoperability
- Decoding support for all MIME 1.0 transfer encodings and many character sets
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- Manual pages:
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- pkg-plist: as obtained via:
make generate-plist - USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
- no SUBR information found for this port
- Dependency lines:
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- To install the port:
- cd /usr/ports/news/flnews/ && make install clean
- To add the package, run one of these commands:
- pkg install news/flnews
- pkg install flnews
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.- PKGNAME: flnews
- Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
- distinfo:
- TIMESTAMP = 1779312615
SHA256 (flnews-1.3.0.tar.bz2) = 877e50628774d4d8b170451049b1cd81c9d716d06d8f8ce16fa36fed6ca8a966
SIZE (flnews-1.3.0.tar.bz2) = 1365566
Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
- Dependencies
- NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
- Build dependencies:
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- pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
- x11.pc : x11/libX11
- xcursor.pc : x11/libXcursor
- xext.pc : x11/libXext
- xfixes.pc : x11/libXfixes
- xft.pc : x11-fonts/libXft
- xinerama.pc : x11/libXinerama
- xrender.pc : x11/libXrender
- Runtime dependencies:
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- xdg-open : devel/xdg-utils
- x11.pc : x11/libX11
- xcursor.pc : x11/libXcursor
- xext.pc : x11/libXext
- xfixes.pc : x11/libXfixes
- xft.pc : x11-fonts/libXft
- xinerama.pc : x11/libXinerama
- xrender.pc : x11/libXrender
- Library dependencies:
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- libfltk.so : x11-toolkits/fltk
- There are no ports dependent upon this port
Configuration Options:- ===> The following configuration options are available for flnews-1.3.0:
XDG_UTILS=on: Use xdg-utils to open URLs and mail clients
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
- Options name:
- news_flnews
- USES:
- pkgconfig ssl tar:bzip2 xorg
- FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
- Master Sites:
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Number of commits found: 1
| Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page) |
| Commit | Credits | Log message |
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1.3.0
21 May 2026 03:36:25
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Kevin Bowling (kbowling) |
news/flnews: New port |
Number of commits found: 1
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