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hardframed

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Registered: 2007-08-03

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[REQUEST] Alpine email client

The alpine email client is a free version of the pine client, released under the Apache License.

It features a ncurses interface and support aspell spellchecking. It's prgrammed in C and is currently the best pure terminal based e-mail client offered, much better than the clunky Mutt client. Actually I advise the core team to start include Alpine in the base install.

Alpine has just recently reached v1.0 and is available as a untrusted source build here:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … s=0&SeB=nd

Please make this one green, thanks!

Last edited by hardframed (2007-12-23 10:43:51)

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finferflu

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Re: [REQUEST] Alpine email client

That is an awesome mail client. I fell in love with it
I hope it makes it into the Community repo, at least.

Last edited by finferflu (2007-12-27 23:31:51)

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bionnaki

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Registered: 2006-09-05

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Re: [REQUEST] Alpine email client

attempted install via yaourt received this error:

Validating source files with md5sums
alpine.tar.gz ... Passed
maildir.patch.gz ... FAILED
==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!
Error: Makepkg was unable to build alpine package.

any ideas?

CuleX

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Registered: 2007-09-15

Posts: 107

Re: [REQUEST] Alpine email client

attempted install via yaourt received this error:

Validating source files with md5sums
alpine.tar.gz ... Passed
maildir.patch.gz ... FAILED
==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!
Error: Makepkg was unable to build alpine package.

any ideas?

Yep. They have changed the patch... somehow.
*Fixing package*

Sorry!

Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: [REQUEST] Alpine email client

FYI, there's a feature request: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9040 to replace pine with alpine. I haven't looked at that in details yet.

Finkregh

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From: Germany/Hannover

Registered: 2007-12-04

Posts: 44

Re: [REQUEST] Alpine email client

i cant install alpine, most of the files from the pkg allready exist in the fs

error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting files)
alpine: /usr/bin/pico exists in filesystem
alpine: /usr/bin/pilot exists in filesystem
alpine: /usr/bin/rpdump exists in filesystem
alpine: /usr/bin/rpload exists in filesystem
alpine: /usr/man/man1/pico.1.gz exists in filesystem
alpine: /usr/man/man1/pilot.1.gz exists in filesystem
alpine: /usr/man/man1/rpdump.1.gz exists in filesystem
alpine: /usr/man/man1/rpload.1.gz exists in filesystem

errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

.filelist:

usr/bin/pico
usr/bin/pilot
usr/bin/rpdump
usr/bin/rpload
usr/man/
usr/man/man1/
usr/man/man1/alpine.1.gz
usr/man/man1/pico.1.gz
usr/man/man1/pilot.1.gz
usr/man/man1/rpdump.1.gz
usr/man/man1/rpload.1.gz

any good workaround known?

skymt

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Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 443

Re: [REQUEST] Alpine email client

Finkregh: uninstall pico and pine first.

Finkregh

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From: Germany/Hannover

Registered: 2007-12-04

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Re: [REQUEST] Alpine email client

Finkregh: uninstall pico and pine first.

duh... not that-a-nice workaround, but thanks

CuleX

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Registered: 2007-09-15

Posts: 107

Re: [REQUEST] Alpine email client

Finkregh: uninstall pico and pine first.

duh... not that-a-nice workaround, but thanks

It's not his problem, if you don't use the new version, which has now replace/conflicts with pine

Finkregh

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From: Germany/Hannover

Registered: 2007-12-04

Posts: 44

Re: [REQUEST] Alpine email client

*caugh* and nano ;P

CuleX

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Registered: 2007-09-15

Posts: 107

Re: [REQUEST] Alpine email client

For me, there were no collisions with nano...

# pacman -Ql nano
nano /etc/nanorc
nano /usr/bin/nano
nano /usr/bin/rnano
nano /usr/man/fr/man1/nano.1.gz
nano /usr/man/fr/man1/rnano.1.gz
nano /usr/man/fr/man5/nanorc.5.gz
nano /usr/man/man1/nano.1.gz
nano /usr/man/man1/rnano.1.gz
nano /usr/man/man5/nanorc.5.gz
<NANO LANG THINGS>
# pacman -Ql alpine | grep nano
#

Last edited by CuleX (2018-11-15 18:15:43)

Finkregh

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From: Germany/Hannover

Registered: 2007-12-04

Posts: 44

Re: [REQUEST] Alpine email client

hum, i had a symlink from /usr/bin/pico to /usr/bin/nano
reinstalling nano after installing alpine did work.

dunno where that link came from

hardframed

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Registered: 2007-08-03

Posts: 25

Re: [REQUEST] Alpine email client

The build script is now updated *here* as the md5sums where incorrect. I've tested it, and it builds, installs and works nicely.

Cheers! Now get this badboy into core please.

PKGBUILD

# Contributor: Fabio Scotoni <fabio@esse.ch>
pkgname=alpine
pkgver=1.00
pkgrel=4
pkgdesc="The Apache-licensed PINE"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://www.washington.edu/alpine/"
license=('APACHE')
depends=(libldap heimdal gettext)
source=(ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/$pkgname/$pkgname.tar.gz
        http://staff.washington.edu/chappa/alpine/patches/alpine-1.00/maildir.patch.gz)
install=alpine.install
md5sums=('214e02f93fad5ce79d8e3b37d74387a1'
         '14b4bcdb494873e27daaac5b67ed5143')
conflicts=('pine')
replaces=('pine')

build() {
  cd "$startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver"
  
  ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-passfile=.alpinepwd --without-tcl \
  --disable-shared --with-system-pinerc=/etc/alpine.d/pine.conf \
  --with-system-fixed-pinerc=/etc/alpine.d/pine.conf.fixed
  cd ..
  patch -Np0 <maildir.patch || return 1
  cd alpine-1.00
  make || return 1
  make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install || return 1
}

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dolby

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Re: [REQUEST] Alpine email client

You should consider applying the all patch

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CuleX

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Registered: 2007-09-15

Posts: 107

Re: [REQUEST] Alpine email client

You should consider applying the all patch

Arch Linux defines simplicity as a lightweight base structure without unnecessary additions, modifications...

The Arch way says, we shouldn't use unnecessary additions or modifications. So, what should we do?
Insert all the patches?
No patches?
Only the patches, which a big part of the alpine users need?

dolby

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From: 1992

Registered: 2006-08-08

Posts: 1,581

Re: [REQUEST] Alpine email client

You should consider applying the all patch

Arch Linux defines simplicity as a lightweight base structure without unnecessary additions, modifications...

The Arch way says, we shouldn't use unnecessary additions or modifications. So, what should we do?
Insert all the patches?
No patches?
Only the patches, which a big part of the alpine users need?

those patches are mostly bugfixes by one of the developers of alpine.

Comment by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Monday, 11 February 2008, 04:19 GMT+2
alpine is now in testing repo. Please report any success or problems.

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9040

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hardframed

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Registered: 2007-08-03

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Re: [REQUEST] Alpine email client

Alpine is now featured in the extra repo, thanks.

http://archlinux.org/packages/14835/

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