On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 11:22:10PM -0500, Ian Pushee wrote: > This isn't specificly a ppc-debian issue, but hopefuly someone will have > some insite... I am trying to install the PINE mail/news reader on my > new Dibian system. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a package for > it (thought pine-docs is available). Is there some reason that this > widely (at least to my eyes) used email client is left out of the > distribution? What is the cleanest way for me to install it w/out a > debian package available (convert an RPM maybe)?
Pine's license prevents it from being packaged as a part of Debian. Distributions that supply pine binaries generally have an agreement with WU about it, but Debian does not. I don't know if there still is, but there used to be a source package you could use to produce your own .deb to install, the license allows unmodified sources to be distributed. -- Michael Heironimus
