Quoting Piotr Roszatycki: > BTW, other pine's version is a part of official RedHat distribution, > but I don't know is it legal? > > Will the pine return back to distribution? > Well, this is the mostly used mailer by my users (and me).
From http://linuxmafia.com/debian/tips (and based on some suggestions by yours truly): pine/pico: Debian does not by default install "non-free" packages -- those under restrictive software licences (although many are provided and available for installation). If you are a user of the "pine" e-mail client or the "pico" text editor that pine provides, please be aware that pine is non-free and therefore is not a default installation item. The U. of Washington's licence forbids distribution of pine/pico in binary form. This restriction is routinely violated by many GNU/Linux distributions, but not by Debian. (U. of Washington is aware of this licencing problem, but elects not to fix it.) You can thus install pine and pico (in Debian) by installing the pine source-code package and then compiling the programs. However, there's a better alternative. Just put the following script in /usr/local/bin as "pine", and chmod it to 755 (executable): #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/mutt -F /usr/doc/mutt/examples/Pine.rc pico can be emulated by a symbolic link to the simple editor "ae", which is really very close to pico: cd /usr/local/bin ln -s ../../../bin/ae pico -- ((lambda (x) (list x (list (quote quote) x))) (quote (lambda (x) (list x (list (quote quote) x))))) -- A LISP quine written by Seth David Schoen +++ath