At 07:03 PM 7/6/00 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I am sorry, I don't know what Corel-Linux is.
Corel Linux is a Debian derivative. I'd expect that some vintage of the
Debian package-management stuff -- maybe dpkg, maybe apt-get -- works with
it. But I've never actually tried to install it. My impresion is that while
a free version is obtainable and installable, it is only with quite a bit of
difficulty. Corel's emphasis is on the commercial version, even more so than
other commercial distributions. My take: if you want a free Debian, then
install Debian, not Corel. If you want Corel enough to pay for it, then do,
and get the support that (presumably) comes with a license.
Debian derivatives have special problems with pine, BTW. Debian ships a
patched version of pine, and due to the oddities of the pine license, it
cannot ship a binary. The genuine pine*.deb package, therefore, is a source
package that includes a script that compiles it at install time. I don't
know how Corel may have changed things, though.
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