Re: [cobalt-users] Installing Pine

[Kris Dahl <kris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 2/22/00 10:32 PM, Rand Kiessig at shawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Thanks for all your help with SSH, I apparently didnt have it running heh ;)
> 
> I am now trying to install pine, however, when I do, I get this error.
> 
> failed dependencies:
> /usr/local/bin/perl is needed by pine-3.96-2
> /bin/csh is needed by pine-3.96-2
> 
> So, I download perl, and try to install it, and get this error..
> 
> failed dependencies:
> /usr/local/bin/perl is needed by perl-5.003-9
> csh is needed by perl-5.003-9

I don't know why you'd need to have a certain shell installed.  Seems nuts
to me.  I think you have a semi-bogus contributed RPM--PERL 5 should have
already been installed on your Qube, but I am not familiar with the 2700wg.
Besides, I don't think Pine requires PERL.  That's the problem with a
contributed RPM (which most MIPS RPMs are going to be), any idiot with a
MIPs box can make one.  And there are not guarantees for optimizations or
quality.  You just get what you get.

> Also, Thanks for the recomendation about Bitchx, I found it on freshmeat,
> but, am not sure which
> one I should grab, and think I need a little help installing it

If you can get past the name, its the best IRC client out there... there are
a lot of really good add-ins like Lice, etc., that add functionality.

> (Im trying to install pine 3.96, but if anyone knows which version of the
> new pine (I think its 4.21) I can use with the cube, please let me know)

You should be able to get 4.21 from:
ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/pine4.21.tar.gz

Then all you have to do is download it (probably as root).
tar xzf pine4.21.tar.gz
cd pine4.21
./configure
./make
./make install

and that it is.  It will be compiled for your machine.  SHouldn't have any
problems and I have never needed to install
> 
> Thanks again for the help, I havent seen any "Geeze you should know this" on
> this board, and that absolutely rules =-)

Once you get this stuff up and running, you should be able to figure most
other things out on your own.  It helps to have a admin social group--that
is your friends are Linux and network administrators, which is how I gleaned
much of my earlier Linux information from way back when.

GL,
-k