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pine, pico MDK rpms are no longer available...


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Does anybody know, why are pine and pico rpms no longer included in Mandrake? According to rpmfind.net, for the last time they made appearance in Mandrake 8.2. I can of course download a tarball from their website, but am just curious...

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I found the latest pine at the plf download sight, under i586. It's linked in our download section at the top of the page.

 

ftp://mandrake-forum.org/pub/PLF/mandrake/10.0/i586/

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No, the package is fine. I get those from new Mandrake packaged off of cooker sometimes. As long as you trust the source, you're fine. I would trust plf!

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Anyway, the reason pine is not included I think has something to do with pine not being free software (as in FLOSS or GPL compatible). RedHat dropped pine first before mandrake. Of course there will be unofficial pine rpms floating around somewhere, but never in the official or the iso.

 

Anyway, if all you need is pico, why don't you try nano? It's basically a pico clone, only open source. You can download it in any mandrake contrib mirror.

ftp://mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake-devel/c...1-1mdk.i586.rpm

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