how do I get pine?

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at mindspring.com
Fri Aug 3 14:57:01 UTC 2007


On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Steven W. Orr wrote:

> On Saturday, Jul 28th 2007 at 11:45 -0500, quoth Michael Hennebry:
>
> =>
> =>How do I get pine?
> =>I tried "yum provides pine" and got lots of output,
> =>but none of it seemed to point to pine.
> =>I got the same amount of joy looking for elm.
> =>Any ideas?
>
> ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/alpine
>
> Don't use pine any more. It's deprecated. Alpine is the new pine.
> It's active. Lots of things are fixed. And it's available in rpms.
> Grab the src.rpm, rpm -i, rpmbuild -bb, rpm -Uvh and you're in
> business.

is there any reason it's not already pre-built for F7 and in one of
the standard repos?  just curious.

rday
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