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Port details on branch 2026Q2
ghostwriter Distraction-free Markdown editor
26.04.2 editors 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 26.04.2Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: kde@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2026-04-19 18:00:56
Last Update: 2026-06-11 08:45:16
Commit Hash: f89ccad
Also Listed In: kde kde-applications
License: GPLv3+
WWW:
https://ghostwriter.kde.org/
Description:
Ghostwriter is a text editor for Markdown. It provides a relaxing, distraction-free writing environment, whether your masterpiece is that next blog post, your school paper, or your NaNoWriMo novel. Create your own custom themes, write in fullscreen mode, or use focus mode to concentrate on just one or more lines. A live HTML preview allows you to view the final formatting as you type.
Homepage    cgit ¦ Codeberg ¦ GitHub ¦ GitLab ¦ SVNWeb - no subversion history for this port

Manual pages:
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. /usr/local/share/licenses/ghostwriter-26.04.2/catalog.mk
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/ghostwriter-26.04.2/LICENSE
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/ghostwriter-26.04.2/GPLv3+
  4. bin/ghostwriter
  5. share/applications/org.kde.ghostwriter.desktop
  6. share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/ghostwriter.png
  7. share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/ghostwriter.png
  8. share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/ghostwriter.png
  9. share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/ghostwriter.png
  10. share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/ghostwriter.png
  11. share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/ghostwriter.png
  12. share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/ghostwriter.svg
  13. share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/ghostwriter_qt.qm
  14. share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/ghostwriter_qt.qm
  15. share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/ghostwriter_qt.qm
  16. share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/ghostwriter_qt.qm
  17. share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/ghostwriter_qt.qm
  18. share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/ghostwriter_qt.qm
  19. share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/ghostwriter_qt.qm
  20. share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/ghostwriter_qt.qm
  21. share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/ghostwriter_qt.qm
  22. share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/ghostwriter_qt.qm
  23. share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/ghostwriter_qt.qm
  24. share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/ghostwriter_qt.qm
  25. share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/ghostwriter_qt.qm
  26. share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/ghostwriter_qt.qm
  27. share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/ghostwriter_qt.qm
  28. share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/ghostwriter_qt.qm
  29. share/locale/ia/LC_MESSAGES/ghostwriter_qt.qm
  30. share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/ghostwriter_qt.qm
  31. share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/ghostwriter_qt.qm
  32. share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/ghostwriter_qt.qm
  33. share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/ghostwriter_qt.qm
  34. share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/ghostwriter_qt.qm
  35. share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/ghostwriter_qt.qm
  36. share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/ghostwriter_qt.qm
  37. share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/ghostwriter_qt.qm
  38. share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/ghostwriter_qt.qm
  39. share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/ghostwriter_qt.qm
  40. share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/ghostwriter_qt.qm
  41. share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/ghostwriter_qt.qm
  42. share/locale/sa/LC_MESSAGES/ghostwriter_qt.qm
  43. share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/ghostwriter_qt.qm
  44. share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/ghostwriter_qt.qm
  45. share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/ghostwriter_qt.qm
  46. share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/ghostwriter_qt.qm
  47. share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/ghostwriter_qt.qm
  48. share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/ghostwriter_qt.qm
  49. share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/ghostwriter_qt.qm
  50. share/man/ca/man1/ghostwriter.1.gz
  51. share/man/es/man1/ghostwriter.1.gz
  52. share/man/it/man1/ghostwriter.1.gz
  53. share/man/man1/ghostwriter.1.gz
  54. share/man/nl/man1/ghostwriter.1.gz
  55. share/man/pt_BR/man1/ghostwriter.1.gz
  56. share/man/ru/man1/ghostwriter.1.gz
  57. share/man/sl/man1/ghostwriter.1.gz
  58. share/man/sv/man1/ghostwriter.1.gz
  59. share/man/tr/man1/ghostwriter.1.gz
  60. share/man/uk/man1/ghostwriter.1.gz
  61. share/metainfo/org.kde.ghostwriter.metainfo.xml
  62. @owner
  63. @group
  64. @mode
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • ghostwriter>0:editors/ghostwriter
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/editors/ghostwriter/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install editors/ghostwriter
  • pkg install ghostwriter
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: ghostwriter
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1780478394 SHA256 (KDE/release-service/26.04.2/ghostwriter-26.04.2.tar.xz) = 4d3b6e57579843a1dd50d09d344667c07b1511f4dcf82764dbd661d28889d5dc SIZE (KDE/release-service/26.04.2/ghostwriter-26.04.2.tar.xz) = 2746452

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
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FreeBSD:16:latest26.04.226.04.2n/a-n/an/a--
Dependencies
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
Build dependencies:
  1. cmake : devel/cmake-core
  2. ninja : devel/ninja
  3. update-desktop-database : devel/desktop-file-utils
  4. meinproc6 : devel/kf6-kdoctools
  5. ECMConfig.cmake : devel/kf6-extra-cmake-modules
  6. lupdate : devel/qt6-tools
Runtime dependencies:
  1. update-desktop-database : devel/desktop-file-utils
Library dependencies:
  1. libKF6ConfigWidgets.so : x11-toolkits/kf6-kconfigwidgets
  2. libKF6CoreAddons.so : devel/kf6-kcoreaddons
  3. libKF6SonnetCore.so : textproc/kf6-sonnet
  4. libKF6WidgetsAddons.so : x11-toolkits/kf6-kwidgetsaddons
  5. libKF6XmlGui.so : x11-toolkits/kf6-kxmlgui
  6. libQt6Core.so : devel/qt6-base
  7. libQt6Svg.so : graphics/qt6-svg
  8. libQt6WebChannel.so : www/qt6-webchannel
  9. libQt6WebEngineCore.so : www/qt6-webengine
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
No options to configure
Options name:
editors_ghostwriter
USES:
cmake compiler:c++20-lang desktop-file-utils kde:6 qt:6 tar:xz
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Master Sites:
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  1. https://download.kde.org/stable/release-service/26.04.2/src/
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Number of commits found: 3

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
CommitCreditsLog message
26.04.2
11 Jun 2026 08:45:16
commit hash: f89ccadb5115a854e3f986adc81cb7c35e6b6e5bcommit hash: f89ccadb5115a854e3f986adc81cb7c35e6b6e5bcommit hash: f89ccadb5115a854e3f986adc81cb7c35e6b6e5bcommit hash: f89ccadb5115a854e3f986adc81cb7c35e6b6e5b files touched by this commit
Max Brazhnikov (makc) search for other commits by this committer
KDE: Update KDE Gear to 26.04.2

Announcement: https://kde.org/announcements/gear/26.04.2/
(cherry picked from commit 61b245c0ddcfdaf4ef10df43eb66a5fb8baab810)
26.04.1
11 May 2026 18:42:47
commit hash: 2dab13f32b990263d1b076d79d80aa2f02d7476acommit hash: 2dab13f32b990263d1b076d79d80aa2f02d7476acommit hash: 2dab13f32b990263d1b076d79d80aa2f02d7476acommit hash: 2dab13f32b990263d1b076d79d80aa2f02d7476a files touched by this commit
Max Brazhnikov (makc) search for other commits by this committer
KDE: Update KDE Gear to 26.04.1

Announcement: https://kde.org/announcements/gear/26.04.1/

Ports changes:

databases/akonadi:
 - Remove unused dependencies

deskutils/kdepim-runtime:
 - Remove unused KWallet

graphics/okular:
 - Remove unused dependency

net/pimcommon:
 - Remove unused dependency

net-im/neochat:
 - Remove unused dependency

(cherry picked from commit a43a667bc391f1156161ae7d62db284869e98ffa)
26.04.0
19 Apr 2026 17:58:01
commit hash: 6fe81b6af803016d1e6b56eb20d2bb52531fe815commit hash: 6fe81b6af803016d1e6b56eb20d2bb52531fe815commit hash: 6fe81b6af803016d1e6b56eb20d2bb52531fe815commit hash: 6fe81b6af803016d1e6b56eb20d2bb52531fe815 files touched by this commit
Max Brazhnikov (makc) search for other commits by this committer
KDE: Update KDE Gear to 26.04.0

Announcement: https://kde.org/announcements/gear/26.04.0/

Ports changes:

audio/libkcompactdisc:
 - Remove port, no longer shipped with KDE Gear

deskutils/kdeconnect-kde:
 - Add dependency on libei

misc/minuet:
 - Add missing dependencies
 - Add patch to restore parity with Linux

net/krdc:
 - Update dependencies

x11/yakuake:
 - Add missing dependencies

(cherry picked from commit a52819c97eeeb39b354fe0fca9a68fcbe42cb9b3)

Number of commits found: 3