On 5/2/05, beartooth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 13:26:35 -0400, Eric Dunbar wrote: > > > =========== > > Compiling Pine > > =========== > [....] > > In my case this is what I needed to run... > > rpm -ivh /usr/src/yellowdog/RPMS/ppc/pine-4.63-1.ppc.rpm > > > > After that, run pine and see what a well designed CLUI interface looks > > like (I still know people who use only pine and nothing else... I just > > wanted something other than the pathetic and user-unfriendly mail that > > ships as default with every Linux distro I've ever tried). > > > > Hope these comments help someone else stuck with compiler problems. > > I don't even try compiling anything -- far beyond my linux competence, > even after years. But I not only still run Pine, I got linux for that main > purpose in the first place. Pine used to be a standard component of all > RedHat releases, from at least 6.0 through 9; I think it was Fedora that > quit. Something to do with licenses; and the Pinemasters at UW on > comp.mail.pine say apologetically that they're constrained by law to stick > with that license; IANAL, but I have counted on those people for years. > > With straight Fedora it's easy enough to find rpms you can download > and install; I run pine on three FC1 machines and an FC3 -- did under FC2 > on the testbed machine till I upgraded that to FC3. > > But I have yet to find an rpm for pine that I can install to our G3 iBook > with YDL 4.0 -- and we run it much less because of that. *P*l*e*a*s*e* > contribute your build to a standard repo as soon as you're sure of it! > Pretty please! With sugar on it. And post to this list when you do. TIA, > effusively. Bless you!
If that .rpm doesn't work I do recommend that you compile it. It *really* is easy! Start by logging in as root or by typing su at the command line in Terminal (or whatever it's called in Linux). Then: yum install rpm-build gcc Download the pine source from: <ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/pine-4.63-1.src.rpm> 1. Let's assume you downloaded 'pine-4.63-1.src.rpm' to the temporary directory: /tmp 2. Open up a terminal, cd to the appropriate directory and build it: cd /tmp rpmbuild --rebuild pine-4.63-1.src.rpm 3. Keep an eye on the console output. This'll tell you where rpmbuild put the compiled .rpm and use that information to install. In my case this is what I ran: rpm -ivh /usr/src/yellowdog/RPMS/ppc/pine-4.63-1.ppc.rpm Note: if you run into "you're not allowed to do that" errors, make sure that you're logged in as root or su. For more information, go to: <http://www.washington.edu/pine/getpine/linux.html> _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
