Re: Pine for Debian and other problems

[Michel <mi...@da...>]

On Fre, 2003-03-21 at 18:26, Bartosz Sokołowski wrote:
> 
> The first question: is it possible to install PINE in Debian?? If I 
> use 'apt-get install pine' I get message saying that apropriate package 
> cannot be found due to some... circumstances. 

I think this would be more appropriate for a Debian list like
debian-user, but anyway: The pine license doesn't allow Debian to
redistribute binaries. You need to get the source and build it yourself,
google for 'Debian pine'.


> Another problem is that my PPC card is probably broken.
> During install I got few messages like that:
> Oops: kernel access of bad area, sig: 11
> NP: (...)
> MSR: (..)
> DAR: (...)
> TASK= (...) 'sed' last syyscall: 3
> 
> Instead of task 'sed' it's sometimes 'grep'. I use 2.4.9 kernel (any newer
> doesn't work on my config). The question is - buggy kernel or hardware
> failure of memory, CPU etc.??

Could be RAM I guess, but AFAIR older 2.4 APUS kernels used to be rather
unstable.


I hope someone else can answer your other question(s).


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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast