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Port details
nchat Another yet Telegram client
5.11.32 net-im 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 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: osa@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2025-10-24 14:15:04
Last Update: 2025-11-16 12:52:13
Commit Hash: faa81d6
License: MIT
WWW:
https://github.com/d99kris/nchat
Description:
nchat is a terminal-based chat client with support for Telegram and WhatsApp. WhatsApp part of the application hasn't been ported yet.
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/nchat-5.11.32/catalog.mk
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/nchat-5.11.32/LICENSE
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/nchat-5.11.32/MIT
  4. bin/nchat
  5. lib/libduchat.so
  6. lib/libncutil.so
  7. lib/libtdclientshared.so
  8. lib/libtgchat
  9. lib/libtgchat.so
  10. libexec/nchat/compose
  11. share/man/man1/nchat.1.gz
  12. share/nchat/themes/basic-color/color.conf
  13. share/nchat/themes/basic-color/usercolor.conf
  14. share/nchat/themes/catppuccin-mocha/color.conf
  15. share/nchat/themes/catppuccin-mocha/usercolor.conf
  16. share/nchat/themes/default/color.conf
  17. share/nchat/themes/dracula/color.conf
  18. share/nchat/themes/dracula/usercolor.conf
  19. share/nchat/themes/espresso/color.conf
  20. share/nchat/themes/espresso/usercolor.conf
  21. share/nchat/themes/gruvbox-dark/color.conf
  22. share/nchat/themes/gruvbox-dark/usercolor.conf
  23. share/nchat/themes/solarized-dark-higher-contrast/color.conf
  24. share/nchat/themes/solarized-dark-higher-contrast/usercolor.conf
  25. share/nchat/themes/tokyo-night/color.conf
  26. share/nchat/themes/tokyo-night/usercolor.conf
  27. share/nchat/themes/tomorrow-night/color.conf
  28. share/nchat/themes/tomorrow-night/usercolor.conf
  29. share/nchat/themes/zenbones-dark/color.conf
  30. share/nchat/themes/zenbones-dark/usercolor.conf
  31. share/nchat/themes/zenburned/color.conf
  32. share/nchat/themes/zenburned/usercolor.conf
  33. @owner
  34. @group
  35. @mode
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • nchat>0:net-im/nchat
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/net-im/nchat/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install net-im/nchat
  • pkg install nchat
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: nchat
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1762861192 SHA256 (d99kris-nchat-v5.11.32_GH0.tar.gz) = 8f93593c691fd468e61fd2828f2950287187829bf4c3b63c6ecbd52da6373146 SIZE (d99kris-nchat-v5.11.32_GH0.tar.gz) = 7329607

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
nchat
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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. gperf : devel/gperf
  4. libncurses.so.6 : devel/ncurses
  5. pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
Runtime dependencies:
  1. libncurses.so.6 : devel/ncurses
  2. python3.11 : lang/python311
Library dependencies:
  1. libreadline.so.8 : devel/readline
  2. libsqlite3.so : databases/sqlite3
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
No options to configure
Options name:
net-im_nchat
USES:
cmake gperf localbase:ldflags ncurses:port python:run pkgconfig readline shebangfix ssl sqlite
FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
Master Sites:
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  1. https://codeload.github.com/d99kris/nchat/tar.gz/v5.11.32?dummy=/
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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)
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5.11.32
16 Nov 2025 12:52:13
commit hash: faa81d6846f2f7bc669592c67919b9318fc0e5b4commit hash: faa81d6846f2f7bc669592c67919b9318fc0e5b4commit hash: faa81d6846f2f7bc669592c67919b9318fc0e5b4commit hash: faa81d6846f2f7bc669592c67919b9318fc0e5b4 files touched by this commit
Sergey A. Osokin (osa) search for other commits by this committer
net-im/nchat: update 5.10.15 -> 5.11.32

ChangeLog:	https://github.com/d99kris/nchat/compare/v5.10.15...v5.11.32

Sponsored by:	tipi.work
5.10.15
24 Oct 2025 15:15:28
commit hash: 07fdc662b818b13e50e6cab18258f0edb4d3a84fcommit hash: 07fdc662b818b13e50e6cab18258f0edb4d3a84fcommit hash: 07fdc662b818b13e50e6cab18258f0edb4d3a84fcommit hash: 07fdc662b818b13e50e6cab18258f0edb4d3a84f files touched by this commit
Sergey A. Osokin (osa) search for other commits by this committer
net-im/nchat: remove needless components

Those are artifacts are related to Whatsup support, which hasn't
been ported yet.
5.10.15
24 Oct 2025 14:10:32
commit hash: 998357027104206b0fd14792ef297aed8e51660fcommit hash: 998357027104206b0fd14792ef297aed8e51660fcommit hash: 998357027104206b0fd14792ef297aed8e51660fcommit hash: 998357027104206b0fd14792ef297aed8e51660f files touched by this commit
Sergey A. Osokin (osa) search for other commits by this committer
net-im/nchat: add new port

nchat is the terminal-based Telegram/WhatsApp client.
The WhatsApp support hasn't been ported yet.

Connect to the build.

Number of commits found: 3