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Installing Pine on Ubuntu

Asked by Vijay

I am trying to apt-get pine for Ubuntu 6.0.6 (Dapper Drake). It seems that the package is not available. I was able to install mutt thou I like pine and am wondering whether I can just get the src and compile and install it. Give me your suggestions.

Thanks and Regards,
-vijay

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Kevin Kubasik (kkubasik) said : 		#1

The easiest route to go on this would be to request a backport of the feisty package of pine to edgy.

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/pine

The instructions here should walk you through how to request a backport.

http://backports.ubuntuforums.org/wiki/index.php/Requesting_A_Backport

I have filed the inital backport request here:

https://launchpad.net/products/edgy-backports/+bug/77773

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Parag Joshi (pmj005) said : 		#2

Ubuntu probably does not have PINE. But, it has ALPINE which is improved version of PINE. Try using it. It is in the Ubuntu repositories.
sudo apt-get install alpine

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Jonny_ (vipnox) said : 		#3

tnx for a tip on alpine. that was the kind of answer i wanted.

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