Re: Pine

[John <joney@clara.net>]

on 08 Nov 99, jaldhar@debian.org wrote...

>On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, John wrote:
>
>> I'm inexperienced with Debian, but had no problem getting Pine from
>> this web page. However, I've been unable to install and configure it.
>> Pine depends on libc-client4.6 and I can't find it - in another posting
>> you indicated it was for the time being under /Incoming, but the only
>> deb I found there seems to be an alpha one.
>> 
>> Also, Pine depends on libc6 >=2.1 (my slink has 2.0.7) and libncurses
>> 4 >=4.2-3.1 (I only have 4.2-3). Neither of these am I unable to find.
>> 
>> I'm puzzled, because I went to ftp.uk.debian.org and got Pine 3.96,
>> thinking I would upgrade later when I located the dependencies,
>> and that says I need the same files. 
>>  
>
>I guess I should have made it clearer but the .debs I made were for potato
>not slink.  All the packages you need to fulfill the dependencies can be
>found in the unstable branch of the archive.  It's a little tedious
>but fairly straightforward to get the source (available from the same
>page) and rebuild it yourself if you cannot upgrade to potato at this
>time.
>
>3.96 was the last version of pine which was distributed by Debian.  Owing
>to licensing problems, later versions cannot be.  Although I am a Debian
>developer, the pine 4.20 .debs are unoffical and neither the Debian
>Project, The University of Washington nor anyone apart from myself has any
>responsibility for them.
>
I'm a little confused here. If 3.96 was the last version distributed by Debian,
why cannot I install it without the three files demanded by 4.20 and only 
found in the unstable branch of the archive. Could my attempt to install
4.20 have left some 'memory or record' so that 3.96 decides it would
like them too? Was 3.96 distributed as suitable for distributions before
potato?

Learning is going to be a long-haul my present rate of progress - but I'll
get there somehow!