Re: [PLUG] Suggest a Host

[Fred K Ollinger <follinge@sas.upenn.edu>]

> Editors.  I use Pico.  They have Apache, PHP 4.2.1, MySQL (I really want
> PostgreSQL, but that's OK.  I might not even get used.)  I don't know
> what mail server they run, but it supports IMAP.

Debian doesn't have pico b/c of license issues. However, they have a free
clone called nano.

apt-get install nano
ln -s `which nano` pico

Now you can act as if pico were installed.

> I was just concerned that Debian would be different enough to cause some
> trouble for me.

Since rh is only rolling free sw into a distro, and patching it, there are
few substative diffs to worry about. Rh does more customization than
debian. Debian gives you more vanilla source. Rh even patched a simple
unix cli util, I can't recall where.

If you want rh source, get it and compile it under debian. It will work.

under debian:

rpm --rebuild rh-magic-patched-src.rpm
alien rh-magic-bin-compiled-under-deb-src.rpm

dpkg -i rh-magic-bin-compiled-under-deb-src.deb

Now you have the rh patched version of that app. I did this w/ pine since
it doesn't come w/ debian.

Fred

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