Re: Pine for Debian
On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Michael Heironimus wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 11:22:10PM -0500, Ian Pushee wrote:
> > This isn't specificly a ppc-debian issue, but hopefuly someone will have
> > some insite... I am trying to install the PINE mail/news reader on my
> > new Dibian system. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a package for
> > it (thought pine-docs is available). Is there some reason that this
> > widely (at least to my eyes) used email client is left out of the
> > distribution? What is the cleanest way for me to install it w/out a
> > debian package available (convert an RPM maybe)?
>
> Pine's license prevents it from being packaged as a part of Debian.
> Distributions that supply pine binaries generally have an agreement with
> WU about it, but Debian does not. I don't know if there still is, but
> there used to be a source package you could use to produce your own .deb
> to install, the license allows unmodified sources to be distributed.
Indeed. `apt-get source pine' and `dpkg-buildpackage' are your friends.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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