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Port details on branch 2026Q2
qTox Qt based Tox client
1.18.5 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 1.18.5Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: yuri@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2026-06-17 01:30:05
Last Update: 2026-06-17 01:27:11
Commit Hash: 71e5002
Also Listed In: net-p2p
License: GPLv3
WWW:
https://qtox.github.io/
https://github.com/TokTok/qTox
Description:
Powerful Tox chat client written using Qt that follows the Tox design guidelines.
HomepageHomepage    cgit ¦ Codeberg ¦ GitHub ¦ GitLab ¦ SVNWeb - no subversion history for this port

Manual pages:
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pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. bin/qtox
  2. share/applications/io.github.qtox.qTox.desktop
  3. share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/qtox.svg
  4. share/metainfo/io.github.qtox.qTox.appdata.xml
  5. share/icons/hicolor/14x14/apps/qtox.png
  6. share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/qtox.png
  7. share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/qtox.png
  8. share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/qtox.png
  9. share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/qtox.png
  10. share/icons/hicolor/36x36/apps/qtox.png
  11. share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/qtox.png
  12. share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/qtox.png
  13. share/icons/hicolor/72x72/apps/qtox.png
  14. share/icons/hicolor/96x96/apps/qtox.png
  15. share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/qtox.png
  16. share/icons/hicolor/192x192/apps/qtox.png
  17. share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/qtox.png
  18. share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/qtox.png
  19. /usr/local/share/licenses/qTox-1.18.5/catalog.mk
  20. /usr/local/share/licenses/qTox-1.18.5/LICENSE
  21. /usr/local/share/licenses/qTox-1.18.5/GPLv3
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • qTox>0:net-im/qTox
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/net-im/qTox/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install net-im/qTox
  • pkg install qTox
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: qTox
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1780499174 SHA256 (TokTok-qTox-v1.18.5_GH0.tar.gz) = 1b3e0860abdf0f776c67f0858d4209f2b04059214fa0b33a6a867f4c2792d8d6 SIZE (TokTok-qTox-v1.18.5_GH0.tar.gz) = 5403534

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
qTox
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest-----n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly---1.18.2_3-n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest1.18.4_11.18.5---1.17.6_4-1.17.6_4
FreeBSD:14:quarterly1.18.51.18.5-1.18.2_31.18.51.17.6_41.17.6_4-
FreeBSD:15:latest1.18.51.18.5n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:15:quarterly1.18.51.18.5n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:16:latest1.18.4_11.18.5n/a-n/an/a--
Dependencies
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Build dependencies:
  1. videodev2.h : multimedia/v4l_compat
  2. cmake : devel/cmake-core
  3. ninja : devel/ninja
  4. update-desktop-database : devel/desktop-file-utils
  5. gettext-runtime>=0.26 : devel/gettext-runtime
  6. gettext-tools>=0.26 : devel/gettext-tools
  7. pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
  8. x11.pc : x11/libX11
  9. xscrnsaver.pc : x11/libXScrnSaver
Runtime dependencies:
  1. update-desktop-database : devel/desktop-file-utils
  2. x11.pc : x11/libX11
  3. xscrnsaver.pc : x11/libXScrnSaver
  4. libqsqlite.so : databases/qt6-base_sqldriver@sqlite
Library dependencies:
  1. libavcodec.so : multimedia/ffmpeg
  2. libexif.so : graphics/libexif
  3. libopus.so : audio/opus
  4. libqrencode.so : graphics/libqrencode
  5. libsodium.so : security/libsodium
  6. libsqlcipher.so : databases/sqlcipher
  7. libtox_extension_messages.so : net-im/tox_extension_messages
  8. libtoxcore.so : net-im/tox
  9. libtoxext.so : net-im/toxext
  10. libunwind.so : devel/libunwind
  11. libv4l2.so : multimedia/libv4l
  12. libvpx.so : multimedia/libvpx
  13. libfilteraudio.so : audio/libfilteraudio
  14. libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
  15. libOpenGL.so : graphics/libglvnd
  16. libopenal.so.1 : audio/openal-soft
  17. libatk-1.0.so : accessibility/at-spi2-core
  18. libcairo.so : graphics/cairo
  19. libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so : graphics/gdk-pixbuf2
  20. libglib-2.0.so : devel/glib20
  21. libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
  22. libgtk-x11-2.0.so : x11-toolkits/gtk20
  23. libharfbuzz.so : print/harfbuzz
  24. libpango-1.0.so : x11-toolkits/pango
  25. libfontconfig.so : x11-fonts/fontconfig
  26. libfreetype.so : print/freetype2
  27. libKF6SonnetCore.so : textproc/kf6-sonnet
  28. libQt6Core.so : devel/qt6-base
  29. libQt6Svg.so : graphics/qt6-svg
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
===> The following configuration options are available for qTox-1.18.5: APPINDICATOR=off FILTERAUDIO=on: Enable the echo canceling backend GTK_SYSTRAY=on: Enable GTK systray PLATFORM_EXTENSIONS=on: Enable platform specific extensions SPELL_CHECK=on: Spell checking support STATUSNOTIFIER=on: Enable status notifier ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Options name:
net-im_qTox
USES:
cmake compiler:c++11-lib desktop-file-utils gettext gl openal:soft pkgconfig qt:6 gnome xorg kde:6 gnome
pkg-message:
For install:
You installed qTox: Qt based Tox client. To have video working, you need: 1. Have multimedia/webcamd installed and running. The usual way to start webcamd is to have these two lines in /etc/rc.conf: webcamd_enable="YES" webcamd_flags="-H" 2. Make sure V4L option is "on" in multimedia/ffmpeg. To have spell checking working, you need: 1. Have the locale set, for example have LANG=en_US.UTF-8 set in the environment. 2. Have some dictionary installed that is supported by KDE sonnet, for example en-hunspell.
Master Sites:
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  1. https://codeload.github.com/TokTok/qTox/tar.gz/v1.18.5?dummy=/
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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)
CommitCreditsLog message
1.18.5
17 Jun 2026 01:27:11
commit hash: 71e50027904a424f77f833b8ca843c5f436b0ce3commit hash: 71e50027904a424f77f833b8ca843c5f436b0ce3commit hash: 71e50027904a424f77f833b8ca843c5f436b0ce3commit hash: 71e50027904a424f77f833b8ca843c5f436b0ce3 files touched by this commit
Vladimir Druzenko (vvd) search for other commits by this committer
Author: Eric Camachat
net-im/qTox: Update 1.18.4 => 1.18.5

Changelog:
https://github.com/TokTok/qTox/releases/tag/v1.18.5

PR:		295820
Approved by:	yuri (maintainer, timeout 2 weeks)
Sponsored by:	UNIS Labs
MFH:		2026Q2

(cherry picked from commit da154025986c9f85ae7ee28ae69d955af22fce73)

Number of commits found: 1