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Port details on branch 2025Q3
krfb VNC server for KDE
25.08.0 net 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 25.08.0Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
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Port Added: 2025-07-14 21:31:31
Last Update: 2025-08-21 20:58:47
Commit Hash: 199061f
Also Listed In: kde kde-applications
License: LGPL20
WWW:
https://www.kde.org
Description:
KDE Desktop Sharing (krfb) is a small server for the RFB protocol, better known as VNC. Unlike most other Unix/Linux RFB servers, KRfb allows you to share your X11 session instead of creating a new X11 session.
Homepage    cgit ¦ Codeberg ¦ GitHub ¦ GitLab ¦ SVNWeb - no subversion history for this port

Manual pages:
FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. /usr/local/share/licenses/krfb-25.08.0/catalog.mk
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/krfb-25.08.0/LICENSE
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/krfb-25.08.0/LGPL20
  4. bin/krfb
  5. bin/krfb-virtualmonitor
  6. lib/libkrfbprivate.so.5
  7. lib/libkrfbprivate.so.5.0
  8. lib/qt6/plugins/krfb/events/x11.so
  9. lib/qt6/plugins/krfb/events/xdp.so
  10. lib/qt6/plugins/krfb/framebuffer/pw.so
  11. lib/qt6/plugins/krfb/framebuffer/xcb.so
  12. share/applications/org.kde.krfb.desktop
  13. share/applications/org.kde.krfb.virtualmonitor.desktop
  14. share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/krfb.png
  15. share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/krfb.svgz
  16. share/krfb/krfb.notifyrc
  17. share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  18. share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  19. share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  20. share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  21. share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  22. share/locale/br/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  23. share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  24. share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  25. share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  26. share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  27. share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  28. share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  29. share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  30. share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  31. share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  32. share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  33. share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  34. share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  35. share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  36. share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  37. share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  38. share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  39. share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  40. share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  41. share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  42. share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  43. share/locale/hne/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  44. share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  45. share/locale/hsb/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  46. share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  47. share/locale/ia/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  48. share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  49. share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  50. share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  51. share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  52. share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  53. share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  54. share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  55. share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  56. share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  57. share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  58. share/locale/mai/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  59. share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  60. share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  61. share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  62. share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  63. share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  64. share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  65. share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  66. share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  67. share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  68. share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  69. share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  70. share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  71. share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  72. share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  73. share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  74. share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  75. share/locale/sa/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  76. share/locale/se/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  77. share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  78. share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  79. share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  80. share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  81. share/locale/sr@ijekavian/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  82. share/locale/sr@ijekavianlatin/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  83. share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  84. share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  85. share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  86. share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  87. share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  88. share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  89. share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  90. share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  91. share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  92. share/locale/xh/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  93. share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  94. share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/krfb.mo
  95. share/metainfo/org.kde.krfb.appdata.xml
  96. share/qlogging-categories6/krfb.categories
  97. @owner
  98. @group
  99. @mode
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • krfb>0:net/krfb
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/net/krfb/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install net/krfb
  • pkg install krfb
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: krfb
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1754646521 SHA256 (KDE/release-service/25.08.0/krfb-25.08.0.tar.xz) = f353c6603046fe97fd0808497d47a3eb18bbd7811e43d08c965414214496845a SIZE (KDE/release-service/25.08.0/krfb-25.08.0.tar.xz) = 1220716

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Dependencies
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Build dependencies:
  1. input.h : devel/evdev-proto
  2. cmake : devel/cmake-core
  3. ninja : devel/ninja
  4. gettext-runtime>=0.22_1 : devel/gettext-runtime
  5. msgfmt : devel/gettext-tools
  6. meinproc6 : devel/kf6-kdoctools
  7. meinproc6 : devel/kf6-kdoctools
  8. ECMConfig.cmake : devel/kf6-extra-cmake-modules
  9. PlasmaWaylandProtocolsConfig.cmake : x11/plasma-wayland-protocols
  10. pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
  11. x11.pc : x11/libX11
  12. xcb.pc : x11/libxcb
  13. xdamage.pc : x11/libXdamage
  14. xext.pc : x11/libXext
  15. xtst.pc : x11/libXtst
Runtime dependencies:
  1. meinproc6 : devel/kf6-kdoctools
  2. meinproc6 : devel/kf6-kdoctools
  3. x11.pc : x11/libX11
  4. xcb.pc : x11/libxcb
  5. xdamage.pc : x11/libXdamage
  6. xext.pc : x11/libXext
  7. xtst.pc : x11/libXtst
Library dependencies:
  1. libvncserver.so : net/libvncserver
  2. libxcb-image.so : x11/xcb-util-image
  3. libpipewire-0.3.so : multimedia/pipewire
  4. libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
  5. libjpeg.so : graphics/jpeg-turbo
  6. libKF6AuthCore.so : devel/kf6-kauth
  7. libKF6Codecs.so : textproc/kf6-kcodecs
  8. libKF6Completion.so : x11-toolkits/kf6-kcompletion
  9. libKF6ConfigCore.so : devel/kf6-kconfig
  10. libKF6ConfigWidgets.so : x11-toolkits/kf6-kconfigwidgets
  11. libKF6CoreAddons.so : devel/kf6-kcoreaddons
  12. libKF6Crash.so : devel/kf6-kcrash
  13. libKF6DBusAddons.so : devel/kf6-kdbusaddons
  14. libKF6DNSSD.so : dns/kf6-kdnssd
  15. libKF6I18n.so : devel/kf6-ki18n
  16. libKPipeWire.so : audio/plasma6-kpipewire
  17. libKF6Notifications.so : devel/kf6-knotifications
  18. libKF6StatusNotifierItem.so : deskutils/kf6-kstatusnotifieritem
  19. libKF6Wallet.so : sysutils/kf6-kwallet
  20. libKWaylandClient.so : x11/plasma6-kwayland
  21. libKF6WidgetsAddons.so : x11-toolkits/kf6-kwidgetsaddons
  22. libKF6WindowSystem.so : x11/kf6-kwindowsystem
  23. libKF6XmlGui.so : x11-toolkits/kf6-kxmlgui
  24. libQt6Core.so : devel/qt6-base
This port is required by:
for Run
  1. net/kdenetwork

Configuration Options:
===> The following configuration options are available for krfb-25.08.0: DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation PIPEWIRE=on: Screen capture via PipeWire ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Options name:
net_krfb
USES:
alias cmake compiler:c++11-lib gettext jpeg kde:6 pkgconfig qt:6 tar:xz xorg
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Master Sites:
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  1. https://download.kde.org/stable/release-service/25.08.0/src/
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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
25.08.0
21 Aug 2025 20:58:47
commit hash: 199061f2d9c9fc45f77983b6b18ff5c18bf50837commit hash: 199061f2d9c9fc45f77983b6b18ff5c18bf50837commit hash: 199061f2d9c9fc45f77983b6b18ff5c18bf50837commit hash: 199061f2d9c9fc45f77983b6b18ff5c18bf50837 files touched by this commit
Max Brazhnikov (makc) search for other commits by this committer
KDE: Update KDE Gear to 25.08.0

Announcement: https://kde.org/announcements/gear/25.08.0/

Removed ports:
   devel/cervisia: not ported to Qt6 and excluded from KDE Gear releases

databases/akonadi:
 - Backport upstream patch to fix account management in Merkuro

devel/kdevelop:
 - Bump PLATFORM_VER to 6.3
 - Revert now needless workaround [1]

devel/kpublictranspor:
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25.04.3
14 Jul 2025 21:28:49
commit hash: a02239584155c9a7be875c51abf506e6e3a589edcommit hash: a02239584155c9a7be875c51abf506e6e3a589edcommit hash: a02239584155c9a7be875c51abf506e6e3a589edcommit hash: a02239584155c9a7be875c51abf506e6e3a589ed files touched by this commit
Max Brazhnikov (makc) search for other commits by this committer
KDE: Update Gear to 25.04.3

Announcement: https://kde.org/announcements/gear/25.04.3/
(cherry picked from commit 880d7ee8f9d1373a5384dbad29c49064fa701323)

Number of commits found: 2