> can anyone tell me how to get pine and pgp .deb packages on my machine. > i have tried apt-get -d install pine and it seems that is not the name > of the package. Could someone tell me what the name for the pine package is? > Thanks. >
Can I suggest this gets added to the FAQ? debian cannot distribute pine, so there is a pine wrapper. for hamm there is the source as well: I'm not sure if there is a wrapper for the newer pines. HTH, Matthew pick:~$ grep pine /mnt/debian/dists/hamm/non-free/binary-i386/Packages Package: pine-docs Filename: dists/stable/non-free/binary-i386/mail/pine-docs_1998-02-15-2.deb These are the pine user guide and the HTML document "Getting Started" as found in ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/docs. They can not be found in pine source code, so they are in a separate package. Package: pine396-diffs Recommends: pine396-src Filename: dists/stable/non-free/binary-i386/mail/pine396-diffs_1.deb Description: Diffs to build a Debianized pine. This package contains the Debian diffs for pine in .deb format, to make Please read the README that will appear in /usr/src/pine after installing Package: pine396-src Recommends: pine396-diffs Filename: dists/stable/non-free/binary-i386/mail/pine396-src_1.deb Description: The original source code for pine. This package contains the original source code tarball for pine and pico. need to install the `pine396-diffs' package also. -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/

