Port details
flnews Fast and lightweight Usenet newsreader with FLTK GUI
1.4.0 news Σ 1.3.0Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch. Maintainer: kbowling@FreeBSD.org Port Added: 2026-05-21 03:39:04Last Update: 2026-10-25 17:42:48Commit Hash: 0d6e46e People watching this port, also watch: pan , sharefonts , eawpats , 9menu , ocp License: FLNEWSWWW: 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 Manual pages: #
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist # USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines :
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 PKGNAME: flnews Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port. # distinfo: # TIMESTAMP = 1792949152
SHA256 (flnews-1.4.0.tar.bz2) = b05cc85b95a8d368d4cdfd32f9c70435053e7c7bc7bcd41be86dce73db24f4e7
SIZE (flnews-1.4.0.tar.bz2) = 1373396
Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC): #
Dependencies # NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered. Build dependencies: #
pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf x11.pc : x11/libX11 xcursor.pc : x11/libXcursor xext.pc : x11/libXext xfixes.pc : x11/libXfixes xft.pc : x11-fonts/libXft xinerama.pc : x11/libXinerama xrender.pc : x11/libXrender
Runtime dependencies: #
xdg-open : devel/xdg-utils x11.pc : x11/libX11 xcursor.pc : x11/libXcursor xext.pc : x11/libXext xfixes.pc : x11/libXfixes xft.pc : x11-fonts/libXft xinerama.pc : x11/libXinerama xrender.pc : x11/libXrender
Library dependencies: #
libfltk.so : x11-toolkits/fltk libfontconfig.so : x11-fonts/fontconfig
There are no ports dependent upon this port # Configuration Options : # ===> The following configuration options are available for flnews-1.4.0:
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: #
Number of commits found: 2 #
Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page) Commit Credits Log message 1.4.0 Kevin Bowling (kbowling) news/flnews: Update to 1.4.0 1.3.0 Kevin Bowling (kbowling) news/flnews: New port
Number of commits found: 2
