BSD Ports

wip/novelwriter 2.7.5 NetBSD

Plain text editor for novels

System
NetBSD
Repository
pkgsrc-wip
Maintainer
[email protected]
License
gnu-gpl-v3 AND apache-2.0 AND cc-by-v4.0
Categories
wip, editors, python

Description

novelWriter is a plain text editor designed for writing novels assembled from many smaller text documents. It uses a minimal formatting syntax inspired by Markdown, and adds a meta data syntax for comments, synopsis, and cross-referencing. It's designed to be a simple text editor that allows for easy organisation of text and notes, using human readable text files as storage for robustness.

The project storage is suitable for version control software, and also well suited for file synchronisation tools. All text is saved as plain text files with a meta data header. The core project structure is stored in a single project XML file. Other meta data is primarily saved as JSON files.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 26.2.2, as upstream numbers it.

SystemPortVersionVulnerabilitiesStatusMaintainerLast update
NetBSDwip/novelwriter2.7.5 behind since 2026-07-07none known-[email protected]-
FreeBSDeditors/novelwriter by name26.2.2 newestnone known-[email protected]2026-10-11
HardenedBSDeditors/novelwriter by name26.2 behind since 2026-10-11no data-[email protected]-
GhostBSDeditors/novelwriter by name26.2 behind since 2026-10-11no data-[email protected]-

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Install

From pkgsrc-wip (no binary package):

cd /usr/pkgsrc/wip/novelwriter && make install clean

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

Dependencies

Build dependencies 1
Run dependencies 2

No port depends on this one.