On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Joe Koenig wrote:
> Trying to install pine on Potato. > Downloaded the official sources. cd pine-3.96M. dpkg-buildpackage. > dpkg --install pine-tech-notes_3.96M-5.0_all.deb > > ------ snip ---------------------------------------------------------- > Preparing to replace pine-tech-notes 3.96M-5.0 (using > pine-tech-notes_3.96M-5.0_all.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement pine-tech-notes ... > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of pine-tech-notes: > pine-tech-notes depends on pine; however: > Package pine is not installed. > dpkg: error processing pine-tech-notes (--install): > dependency problems - leaving unconfigured > Errors were encountered while processing: > pine-tech-notes > ------ snap ---------------------------------------------------------- > > I've seen some other posting referring to the same probs. But no solution. > I've found deb's on http://www.braincells.com/debian/pine/ > Are they approved, legal, offical or whatever? > > TIA > > Joe This is a simple matter which everyone tries to make difficult. Make sure the source deb lines for stable are in your sources.list. These are deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free though I think the first one is enough in this case. Then refresh and do (as root!) apt-get source -b pine in some appropriate place (I recommend /usr/local/src/pine) and debs for pine (4.21, not 3.96) will be created. Period. Let me know if you have any problems with this. I didn't. By the way, I tried this just now, and I'm getting some bizarre permission problems I've never seen before. Hopefully this is a temporary condition. Err http://http.us.debian.org stable/non-free pine4 4.21-1 (dsc) Could not open file pine4_4.21-1.dsc - open (13 Permission denied) [IP: 35.9.37.225 80] [etc] Sincerely, Faheem Mitha.
