net-im/faro 0.1.7 FreeBSD

Terminal client for Signal, built for people who live in tmux

System: FreeBSD
Repository: FreeBSD ports
Maintainer: [email protected]
Port added: 2026-10-31
Last update: 2026-10-31
Commit: 4f1c035e23
License: AGPLv3
Categories: net-im

Description

faro is a terminal (TUI) client for Signal, written in Rust and built for people who run everything over SSH inside tmux. It focuses on a polished, discoverable interface that never freezes, with an OpenCode-style command palette and btop-style colour and glyph graphics.

It uses presage for the Signal protocol and never reimplements it. Unofficial; not affiliated with Signal.

Version history 1

0.1.7 2026-10-31 4f1c035e23

Upstream's version as each commit to the port's Makefile set it, or as this site first saw it in the system's packages; the tree's own revisions are not versions here.

Install

Binary package:

pkg install faro

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/net-im/faro/ && make install clean

To depend on this port in another port's Makefile:

RUN_DEPENDS=	faro>0:net-im/faro

Packages

The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.

Repository	aarch64	amd64	armv6	armv7	i386
FreeBSD:14:latest	-	0.1.7	-	-	0.1.7
FreeBSD:14:quarterly	-	-	n/a	-	-
FreeBSD:15:latest	-	0.1.7	n/a	-	-
FreeBSD:15:quarterly	-	-	n/a	n/a	n/a
FreeBSD:16:latest	-	-	n/a	n/a	n/a
FreeBSD:16:quarterly	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right (to build, as it needs nothing to run); at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

graph LR
  me["net-im/faro"]
  me --> d0["archivers/brotli"]
  me --> d1["archivers/liblz4"]
  me --> d2["archivers/zstd"]
  me --> d3["devel/abseil"]
  me --> d4["devel/jsoncpp"]
  me --> d5["devel/libunistring"]
  me --> d6["devel/pkgconf"]
  me --> d7["devel/protobuf"]
  me -.-> dmore(["7 more"])
  classDef this fill:#ab2b28,color:#ffffff,stroke:#ab2b28
  class me this

Dependencies

As this port's Makefile names them.

Build 1

protoc : devel/protobuf

The full lists below include those, and their dependencies in turn.

Build dependencies 15

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

Options name: net-im_faro

Option

Default

Description

DOCS

Build and/or install documentation

USES: cargo ssl
Service scripts: none

Files

distinfo 625

File

Size

SHA256

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harababurel-libsignal-service-rs-7a8c7fa4f3b3c88d0ea385fc88033d2742a99d8d_GH0.tar.gz

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rust/crates/aho-corasick-1.1.5.crate

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rust/crates/allocator-api2-0.2.21.crate

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rust/crates/android_system_properties-0.1.6.crate

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rust/crates/anstream-1.0.0.crate

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rust/crates/anstyle-parse-1.0.0.crate

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rust/crates/anstyle-query-1.1.5.crate

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rust/crates/anstyle-wincon-3.0.11.crate

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rust/crates/anyhow-1.0.104.crate

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rust/crates/approx-0.5.1.crate

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Commit history 1

Date Commit Credits Log message

2026-10-31

4f1c035e23

Dave Cottlehuber

net-im/faro: New port - a terminal-based Signal client