It's a very simple question. I wanted to add pico as an option for users
on a small server we use to toy around with some friends but it looks
like you have to install pine too. Is it possible to compile it to
OpenBSD or any BSD? Any experiences so far? I'm not sure alpine includes
pico with it.

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On Fri, 21 May 2021, ffuentes wrote:

It's a very simple question. I wanted to add pico as an option for users
on a small server we use to toy around with some friends but it looks
like you have to install pine too. Is it possible to compile it to
OpenBSD or any BSD? Any experiences so far? I'm not sure alpine includes
pico with it.

Yes, Alpine includes Pico. In order to compile Alpine you need to compile
Pico, so they are distributed together, and when you compile Alpine you
get Pico as an extra benefit.

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On Fri, 21 May 2021 00:28:36 -0600, Eduardo Chappa wrote:

On Fri, 21 May 2021, ffuentes wrote:

It's a very simple question. I wanted to add pico as an option for users
on a small server we use to toy around with some friends but it looks
like you have to install pine too. Is it possible to compile it to
OpenBSD or any BSD? Any experiences so far? I'm not sure alpine includes
pico with it.

Yes, Alpine includes Pico. In order to compile Alpine you need to compile Pico, so they are distributed together, and when you compile Alpine you
get Pico as an extra benefit.

And, you could look to `nano` -- a pico look-like editor with expanded
features which you should be able to install from OpenBSD depositories -- or you may find it is already installed. It's what I use on FreeBSD.

HTH,
Jonesy
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On 21/05/2021 06.40, ffuentes wrote:

It's a very simple question. I wanted to add pico as an option for users
on a small server we use to toy around with some friends but it looks
like you have to install pine too.

Mostly those come hand in hand, I have seen some Linux distributions
which has made one for pico and one for pine/alpine which depends on the
pico package.

Is it possible to compile it to OpenBSD or any BSD?

Yes, it's possible, if I recall it right:
- unpack the source
- cd into the alpine source directory
- run configure
- cd into pico directory
- run make

Any experiences so far?

No and I wouldn't take the time, I have only used pico as a text editor (outside pine/alpine) kind of once in my life. Then the pico package for OpenBSD was replaced with the nano one mid 2000.

I'm not sure alpine includes pico with it.

Sure it does, but if you don't want alpine, so why not install nano as
others already suggested.

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On Fri, 21 May 2021, J.O. Aho wrote:

On 21/05/2021 06.40, ffuentes wrote:

Is it possible to compile it to OpenBSD or any BSD?

Yes, it's possible, if I recall it right:
- unpack the source
- cd into the alpine source directory
- run configure
- cd into pico directory
- run make

The last step won't work, because some of the #include statements will not point to existing files that are created during normal compilation. For example, Pico uses some of the c-client code for purposes of utf-8
support, so after configure just run the make command, and that should
work.

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In article <slrnsaeedv.cjr.ffuentes@texto-plano.xyz>,
ffuentes <ffuentes@texto-plano.xyz> wrote:

It's a very simple question. I wanted to add pico as an option for
users on a small server we use to toy around with some friends
but it looks like you have to install pine too. Is it possible to
compile it to OpenBSD or any BSD? Any experiences so far? I'm not
sure alpine includes pico with it.

As others have pointed out, you could install nano as an editor
that's similar to pico. However there should be no need to compile
anything. Look at the packages available on OpenBSD. OpenBSD6.9
includes the packages:

alpine-2.24.tgz
pico-5.09p21.tgz
nano-5.6.1.tgz

so it looks like pico is available as a separate package.

Just use the pkg_add command:

https://man.openbsd.org/pkg_add

to fetch and install the packages pico-5.09p21.tgz and
nano-5.6.1.tgz for your particular platform and let your friends use
both.
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On 2021-05-22, Dennis Davis <dennisdavis@fastmail.fm> wrote:

In article <slrnsaeedv.cjr.ffuentes@texto-plano.xyz>,
ffuentes <ffuentes@texto-plano.xyz> wrote:

It's a very simple question. I wanted to add pico as an option for
users on a small server we use to toy around with some friends
but it looks like you have to install pine too. Is it possible to
compile it to OpenBSD or any BSD? Any experiences so far? I'm not
sure alpine includes pico with it.

As others have pointed out, you could install nano as an editor
that's similar to pico. However there should be no need to compile
anything. Look at the packages available on OpenBSD. OpenBSD6.9
includes the packages:

alpine-2.24.tgz
pico-5.09p21.tgz
nano-5.6.1.tgz

so it looks like pico is available as a separate package.

Just use the pkg_add command:

https://man.openbsd.org/pkg_add

to fetch and install the packages pico-5.09p21.tgz and
nano-5.6.1.tgz for your particular platform and let your friends use
both.

Lol I felt very silly when I found the package the other day.
Thank you!
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