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Port details
star_traders Simple text-based game of interstellar trading
7.21 games 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 7.20Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: petteri.valkonen@iki.fi search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2024-05-19 05:27:02
Last Update: 2026-05-22 17:22:54
Commit Hash: e4af106
License: GPLv3
WWW:
https://www.zap.org.au/projects/trader
Description:
Star Traders is a simple text-based game of interstellar trading, where the objective is to create companies, buy and sell shares, borrow and repay money, in order to become the wealthiest player (the winner).
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Manual pages:
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. /usr/local/share/licenses/star_traders-7.21/catalog.mk
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/star_traders-7.21/LICENSE
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/star_traders-7.21/GPLv3
  4. bin/trader
  5. share/man/man6/trader.6.gz
  6. share/applications/au.org.zap.trader.desktop
  7. share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/trader.png
  8. share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/trader.png
  9. share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/trader.png
  10. share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/trader.png
  11. share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/trader.png
  12. share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/trader.png
  13. share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/trader.png
  14. share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/trader.png
  15. share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/trader.png
  16. share/icons/hicolor/96x96/apps/trader.png
  17. share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/trader.svg
  18. share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/trader.mo
  19. share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/trader.mo
  20. share/locale/en@quot/LC_MESSAGES/trader.mo
  21. share/locale/en_AU/LC_MESSAGES/trader.mo
  22. share/locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/trader.mo
  23. share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/trader.mo
  24. share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/trader.mo
  25. share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/trader.mo
  26. share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/trader.mo
  27. share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/trader.mo
  28. share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/trader.mo
  29. share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/trader.mo
  30. share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/trader.mo
  31. share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/trader.mo
  32. share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/trader.mo
  33. share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/trader.mo
  34. share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/trader.mo
  35. share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/trader.mo
  36. share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/trader.mo
  37. share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/trader.mo
  38. share/metainfo/au.org.zap.trader.metainfo.xml
  39. @owner
  40. @group
  41. @mode
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • star_traders>0:games/star_traders
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/games/star_traders/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install games/star_traders
  • pkg install star_traders
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: star_traders
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1779209514 SHA256 (trader-7.21.tar.xz) = 541d1180dde04173c071d5c59eaf72a6572f8dfc8065e184eaf7d14bccd0257d SIZE (trader-7.21.tar.xz) = 752252

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
star_traders
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest7.207.20-7.207.20n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly7.207.20-7.207.20n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest7.217.21-7.207.21---
FreeBSD:14:quarterly7.207.20-7.207.20---
FreeBSD:15:latest7.217.21n/a7.20n/an/a--
FreeBSD:15:quarterly7.207.20n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:16:latest7.217.21n/a-n/an/a--
Dependencies
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
Build dependencies:
  1. pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
  2. gettext-runtime>=0.26 : devel/gettext-runtime
Library dependencies:
  1. libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
===> The following configuration options are available for star_traders-7.21: NLS=on: Native Language Support ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Options name:
games_star_traders
USES:
iconv ncurses pkgconfig tar:xz gettext-runtime
FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
Master Sites:
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  1. https://ftp.zap.org.au/pub/trader/unix/
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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
7.21
22 May 2026 17:22:54
commit hash: e4af106a069adad55d8376337e80431d405c83ddcommit hash: e4af106a069adad55d8376337e80431d405c83ddcommit hash: e4af106a069adad55d8376337e80431d405c83ddcommit hash: e4af106a069adad55d8376337e80431d405c83dd files touched by this commit
Vladimir Druzenko (vvd) search for other commits by this committer
Author: Petteri Valkonen
games/star_traders: Update 7.20 => 7.21

Version 7.21 (17th May, 2026)
-----------------------------

Added SPDX__ licence identifiers to all source code files.

__ https://spdx.dev/

Minor bug fix for the manual page: removed the invocation to the
undefined "mR" font.  Updated all documentation to use HTTPS instead of
the insecure Git and obsolete FTP protocols.

Updated to GNU Gettext 0.22 or later.  Updated to the latest snapshot of
the Gnulib GNU Portability Library, including changes to make Star
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7.20
19 May 2024 05:21:07
commit hash: 5c99d2c5f6207b05f9cb749ee47c987f14b796abcommit hash: 5c99d2c5f6207b05f9cb749ee47c987f14b796abcommit hash: 5c99d2c5f6207b05f9cb749ee47c987f14b796abcommit hash: 5c99d2c5f6207b05f9cb749ee47c987f14b796ab files touched by this commit
Zsolt Udvari (uzsolt) search for other commits by this committer
Author: Petteri Valkonen
games/star_traders: new port: text-based game

Star Traders is a simple text-based game of interstellar trading,
where the objective is to create companies, buy and sell shares,
borrow and repay money, in order to become the wealthiest player
(the winner).

WWW: https://www.zap.org.au/projects/trader/

PR:		278349
Approved by:	submitter is maintainer, diizzy (mentor)
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D45091

Number of commits found: 2