Subject: Re: pine in debian
From: FeLoNiouS MoNK (codered@gci.net)
Date: Thu Apr 11 2002 - 17:30:00 AKDT
first id like to say DSELECT sux.. then id like to thank Christopher for
the GREAT instructions on how to actually get this working.. ive been tryin
for several days .. well off and on .. to get this to work.. i even
downloaded the tarball but due to the lack of libldap .. i was screwed.. and
couldnt find what was missing .. considering i had an ldap package
installed.. blah.. its up and runnin . but for some reason my smtp server is
kaput! .. lol anywayz.. off to get samba runnin, then X .. .. thanx again
..
> Try:
>
> apt-get source --build pine
>
> The first time you run this it'll probably fail because you don't have
> the right -dev dependencies to build the packages. Just do
>
> apt-get install [packages listed as missing]
>
> and then repeat the 'apt-get source' command.
>
> For this to work, you'll need a source line in your
> /etc/apt/sources.list. These should be sufficient:
>
> deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US sid/non-US main
> contrib non-free
>
> (the last two lines should be one line in the file) These are sid
> lines, and I'm not 100% sure a source package exists for woody, but just
> s/sid/woody/ in these lines and give it a whirl.
>
> When it finishes, you should have a series of *.deb packages in the
> current directory. Just do
>
> dpkg --install *.deb
>
> and you've got Pine.
>
> Before you do all this, consider mutt. It's a fantastic MUA, although
> the learning curve is fairly steep at first. And it's truly free
> software.
>
> FYI, this source --build system can be used for virtually any Debian
> package, which allows you to optimize any package you want for your
> processor. Debian binary packages are compiled for i386 architecture.
> I think this is overrated, but some people believe you can get 10 -
> 20% improvement in speed by compiling for newer Intel / AMD hardware
> (586, 686, K6, K7 etc.)
>
> Chris
> --
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> Computer Systems Manager email: cswingle@iarc.uaf.edu
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