pine

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Sat Jul 25 02:00:45 UTC 2009


On 07/24/2009 05:47 PM, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
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>>>  I was recalled that years ago I used "pine" as my email client. I
>>> tried $ sudo aptitude install pine, but it is not available from the
>>> Ubuntu sources. Do you need to to get the tar-ball and compile pine?
>> 
>> Karl,  "alpine" is the replacement they ceased developing pine under its 
>> old licence I think, and moved the codebase to alpine.
>> If you cant find it goto ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/alpine
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 	Hi Res I put pine in google and it took me to washinton.edu and I d/l
> pine for a deb and tried to install but it's missing a lib file that
> Ubuntu does not have.The whole thing was to see why you don't like the
> man pages and I agree. They seem to think you already have been using
> procmail and procmailrc which was not there when I last used it. The man
> pages are very bad!
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Does:

$ sudo apt-get install alpine

not work for you?

http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/alpine





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