> doing soemthing wrong, but was something as simple as Pine left out of > the distro? Anywho, basically, I guess dselect is the easier way to do > things, but I can't even find Netscape in there. Is there a page onthe
Both of these don't fit Debian's idea of free (see http://www.debian.org/intro/free). The University of Washington (the originator of pine) won't let us distribute binaries built from modified source (we have to change a few lines here and there to put files in the right places, etc.). It _is_ allowed, however, to distribute source and a patch, so what we do is distribute the source, and a patchfile, together with a makefile that'll build you a pine .deb. Netscape works similarly -- it's technically illegal for us to redistribute netscape binaries. There is a netscape .deb in the contrib section -- you download the netscape .tar.gz from netscape.com, put it in /tmp, and install the netscape .deb file, which unzips and installs the tarball. Will -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | | PGP Public Key: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/index.html#pgpkey | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | You think you're so smart, but I've seen you naked | | and I'll prob'ly see you naked again ... | | --The Barenaked Ladies, "Blame It On Me" | --------------------------------------------------------------------------