[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

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

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
							    -- Linus Torvalds



Reply to: