cursed curses !!

[foobar]

Hi.
Now that i have got 'net under linux, i don't want to run ultra-slow graphical apps to brows and mail, but the text ones. I've got lynx and links, but i want pine.
Now i've searched ftp://ftp.nl.uu.net/pub/linux/mandrake/8.1/SRPMS/
for it, and got a source package of pine that i had to compile manually.
All goes well, exept for the fact that it has to be linked against the libcurses file, which it says it 'can't'.
Now i've checked my /lib for it, and found > 7 libcurses.so.whateverversion libraries !

How can i make it 'find' them again ? Or do need to download more ? Do you know any pre-compiled pine locations ?

[Calum]

i have got pine on both my redhat and my mandrake CDs, both as rpms (which are easy to install i found) but it is not on my turbolinux cd (i think), so not all distros have it.

You can also download it from here i think plus you may also want to read this pine security update.

[voidmain]

Calum is right. "pine-4.33-2mdk.i586.rpm" is on the Mandrake 8.1 CD #2.

Stick it in the drive then:

# mount /mnt/cdrom
# rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS2/pine-4*

[foobar]

Thanks Calum and Void,
i don't have the second cd, but i do havedownloaded the package: it now raises the following error:

failed dependencies: libdb.so.3.3.so is needed !

[voidmain]

You probably need the "db2" or "db3" rpm installed. db1 and db2 are on the first Mandrake 8.1 CD, db3 libraries appear not to be included so if you are using the stock Pine RPM then I would suggest you install the db2* rpm from the first CD and see if that takes care of it.

[ July 11, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

[foobar]

Oh wait, i had this /lib/libdb1.so.2 (not sure about the name ... ) or something lying around, i just overrided RPM in MC by copying it manually.
Then i did
ln -s /lib/libdb1.so.2 /lib/libdb.so.3.3.so

And pine works great now.

[voidmain]

Well, I can't think of why Pine would use the Berkeley Database libraries, but whatever it does use them for don't count on those functions being problem free.