Re: building pine from debs

I never liked mutt much either :). I have found that using the packages from Mandrake Cooker works pretty well. Just be sure to grab pine AND openssl. You convert them with alien (alien ) and you install them like you always do with deb. If you're interested: ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake-

Re: building pine from debs

All right, that did it! I had tried direct compilation previously but not with slx, so somewhere it was complaining and I didn't look further into it. Thanks, now I can put mutt back where it belongs and go to bed with a clear conscience :-) PS: I'd _still_ like to know why those debs didn't w

Re: building pine from debs

I didn't play with the debs. I just went to: ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/ and downloaded: pine4.32.tar.gz Use: tar -xzvf pine4.32.tar.gz cd pine4.32 ./build slx In a few minutes Pine 4.32 was built!!! As "root" I copied the pine4.32/bin/pine executable to /usr/local/bin and

Re: building pine from debs

At 01:38 PM 1/25/01 , you wrote: Sorry if it's a usual problem, but I can't find info in the archives. Here it is (it's pine 3-96) apt-get source -b pine and then: install bin/pine debian/tmp/usr/bin install: cannot stat `bin/pine': No such file or directory make[1]: *** [binaryPine] Error

building pine from debs

Sorry if it's a usual problem, but I can't find info in the archives. Here it is (it's pine 3-96) apt-get source -b pine and then: install bin/pine debian/tmp/usr/bin install: cannot stat `bin/pine': No such file or directory make[1]: *** [binaryPine] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr