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Package: tin (1:1.9.2+20061021-1) [universe]

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Maintainer:

Please consider filing a bug or asking a question via Launchpad before contacting the maintainer directly.

Original Maintainer (usually from Debian):

  • Marco d'Itri

It should generally not be necessary for users to contact the original maintainer.

Similar packages:

A full-screen easy to use Usenet newsreader

tin can read news locally (i.e. from /var/spool/news) or remotely (rtin or tin -r option) via an NNTP (Network News Transport Protocol) server.

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    or debconf-2.0
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  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.5-0ubuntu1)
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb
  • dep: libcanlock2 (>= 2b-1)
    library for creating and verifying Usenet cancel locks
  • dep: libidn11 (>= 0.5.18)
    GNU libidn library, implementation of IETF IDN specifications
  • dep: libncursesw5 (>= 5.4-5)
    Shared libraries for terminal handling (wide character support)
  • dep: libpcre3 (>= 4.5)
    Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expression Library - runtime files
  • sug: gnupg
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  • sug: ispell
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  • sug: metamail
    implementation of MIME

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Download for all available architectures
Architecture Package Size Installed Size Files
amd64 665.9 kB1696 kB [list of files]
i386 641.2 kB1668 kB [list of files]
powerpc 669.3 kB1704 kB [list of files]