[ Thanks to Sensei
for this link. ]
“Pine (and its popular text editor, Pico), are not Free
Software, and carry a restrictive software license that forbids
distribution of modified binaries.”
“Thus, it’s illegal for Debian to include a “Debianized” Pine in
binary form. Debian DOES include the source neccessary to do this,
and it’s not a big procedure.
Here’s what to do: (All this should be done as root)…”
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