Re: PINE

[Calvin Chong <evil@linuxhall.org>]

on 7/18/01 11:42 AM, Jeff Maxson at jbmaxson@surfglobal.net wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, dude wrote:
> 
>> 
>> I know PINE is not what debian users use,
>> but i recently convinced my girlfriend to
>> let me install debian on her windows computer.
>> Her only gripe with using it is
>> that there are no debs of Pine.
>> 
>> She has tried building it from source
>> downloaded from washington.edu
>> but to no avail.
>> 
>> Are there any debian-ized sources around
>> 
>> or even debs being help somewhere?
>> 
>> Thanks
> 
> I use pine, and just downloaded the binary from washington's site.  I then
> renamed the huge filename to "pine", stuck that file into a directory in
> my path, and it works fine.  (prbably not the *debian* way, but it works
> fine for my home computer...)

by the fine way, making a debian package isn't that hard after-all, right?