pine

[Karl F. Larsen]

NoOp wrote:
> On 07/24/2009 05:47 PM, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> <snip PGP stuff>
>>>>  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!
> <snip silly PGP signing stuff>
> 
> Does:
> 
> $ sudo apt-get install alpine
> 
> not work for you?
> 
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/alpine
> 
> 
	I expect it works fine. I want to get old pine to work but it may be
more work than it is worth. No plan to use it again just a trip back in
time.

73 Karl


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