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flnews Fast and lightweight Usenet newsreader with FLTK GUI
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Maintainer: kbowling@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2026-05-21 03:39:04
Last Update: 2026-05-21 03:36:25
Commit Hash: fb4f65c
License: FLNEWS
WWW:
https://micha.freeshell.org/flnews/
Description:
flnews is a fast and lightweight Usenet newsreader with a GUI based on the FLTK toolkit, intended for POSIX-conformant operating systems. Features: - Minimal external dependencies - Standards-compliant NNTP communication and MIME handling - Transport Layer Security (TLS) with optional CRL checking - Cancel-Lock / Cancel-Key authentication for Cancel and Supersede - NNTP COMPRESS extension (DEFLATE) when zlib is available - Shared group state in '~/.newsrc' for interoperability - Decoding support for all MIME 1.0 transfer encodings and many character sets
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Manual pages:
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. bin/flnews
  2. share/applications/flnews.desktop
  3. share/flnews/license.txt
  4. share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/flnews.png
  5. share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/flnews.png
  6. share/man/man1/flnews.1.gz
  7. /usr/local/share/licenses/flnews-1.3.0/catalog.mk
  8. /usr/local/share/licenses/flnews-1.3.0/LICENSE
  9. /usr/local/share/licenses/flnews-1.3.0/FLNEWS
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • flnews>0:news/flnews
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/news/flnews/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install news/flnews
  • pkg install flnews
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: flnews
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1779312615 SHA256 (flnews-1.3.0.tar.bz2) = 877e50628774d4d8b170451049b1cd81c9d716d06d8f8ce16fa36fed6ca8a966 SIZE (flnews-1.3.0.tar.bz2) = 1365566

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Dependencies
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Build dependencies:
  1. pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
  2. x11.pc : x11/libX11
  3. xcursor.pc : x11/libXcursor
  4. xext.pc : x11/libXext
  5. xfixes.pc : x11/libXfixes
  6. xft.pc : x11-fonts/libXft
  7. xinerama.pc : x11/libXinerama
  8. xrender.pc : x11/libXrender
Runtime dependencies:
  1. xdg-open : devel/xdg-utils
  2. x11.pc : x11/libX11
  3. xcursor.pc : x11/libXcursor
  4. xext.pc : x11/libXext
  5. xfixes.pc : x11/libXfixes
  6. xft.pc : x11-fonts/libXft
  7. xinerama.pc : x11/libXinerama
  8. xrender.pc : x11/libXrender
Library dependencies:
  1. libfltk.so : x11-toolkits/fltk
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
===> The following configuration options are available for flnews-1.3.0: XDG_UTILS=on: Use xdg-utils to open URLs and mail clients ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Options name:
news_flnews
USES:
pkgconfig ssl tar:bzip2 xorg
FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
Master Sites:
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  1. https://micha.freeshell.org/flnews/src/
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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)
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1.3.0
21 May 2026 03:36:25
commit hash: fb4f65cf2ea4338eb885625a223b0dae4559622bcommit hash: fb4f65cf2ea4338eb885625a223b0dae4559622bcommit hash: fb4f65cf2ea4338eb885625a223b0dae4559622bcommit hash: fb4f65cf2ea4338eb885625a223b0dae4559622b files touched by this commit
Kevin Bowling (kbowling) search for other commits by this committer
news/flnews: New port

Number of commits found: 1