Re: PINE problem

On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Bret Busby wrote:

> Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 23:48:28 +0800
> From: Bret Busby <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Pine-info] PINE problem
> 
> On 04/02/2010, Bret Busby <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>>
>> I have just installed alpine on my laptop, on Debian 5 (my pine
>> installation is on another computer; my desktop). In looking at the
>> alpine .pinerc file, the file has its own inline documentation, as
>> opposed to the contextual help facility in the pine .pinerc file.
>>
> <snip>
>>
>
> I have remnamed my .pinerc file and my mail directory on my desktop,
> and tried to install alpine.
>
> After a couple of hours ( we have a problem with a bodgy ISP, and the
> data transmission speed has gone from ADSL speed to dialup speed) of
> tiome to download and install the two packages, I got the following
> error;
>
> "E: /var/cache/apt/archives/alpine_1.10+dfsg-3_i386.deb: trying to
> overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/rpload.1.gz', which is also in package
> pine
> "
>
> and so the installation apparently did not complete.
>
> So, what now?
>
>

Well, I have removed pine, and reinstalled alpine, and renamed my mail 
directory to mail, and renamed my .pinerc file to .pinerc, and ahve run 
alpine, and it seems to work (mostly).

I have lost the functionality of using the left and right cursor contol 
keys to go up and down levels and out to the main menu, and have to use 
the < and > keys, which is an unfortunate loss in functionality.

Oh, and, when I ran alpine the first time, after running the filters 
until the first appearance of "filtering done", it then archived about 
three or four files, so that I assume that pine had crashed during the 
archiving at the first time it was run this month.

Anyway, as I am no longer using pine, and am now using alpine, and I 
have been and am subscribed to the alpine list, I will shortly 
unsubscribe from this list.

So, "so long and thanks for the fish", and, "we may meet again on the 
other side" ( - the alpine list).

--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............

"So once you do know what the question actually is,
  you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
   Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
   "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
   A Trilogy In Four Parts",
   written by Douglas Adams,
   published by Pan Books, 1992

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