VVDQ : Alpine on Ubuntu??

Felipe Figueiredo philsf79 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 8 21:16:48 UTC 2008


On Jan 8, 2008 7:16 PM, Felipe Figueiredo <philsf79 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 8, 2008 5:49 PM, Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org> wrote:
>
>
> > The OP had complained that "not even pine" is in the repos, but the
> > reasons are different: Alpine is just not in Dapper, probably just
> > because it is too new for that, while Pine cannot reasonably be in any
> > distro.
>
> Not entirely correct. Pine license permits distribution of unmodified
> copies. Debian version of pine has modifications, so they cannot
> distribute them. That´s why pine can only be distributed in debian in
> source code.
>
> If the OP wants pine, it just needs to enable source repositories and
> issue the following commands
>
>
> apt-get source pine
> cd pine-4.??
> dpkg-buildpackage
> cd ..
>

bad mouse, bad mouse.

The most important command went missing:

dpkg -i pine*.deb




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