Source Download
The full Alpine 2.00
source and documentation release, containing code to generate Unix
Alpine, PC-Alpine and Web Alpine as well as imapd and supporting tools, is available in either:
As a convenience, the UW Alpine Team also
offers
packages and pre-compiled binaries for a variety of platforms including Windows.
Snapshots of development sources are available in a ReadOnly
Subversion repository.
In addition, contributors from
around the world provide resources and
adaptations of Alpine as well as mirrored
distribution sites.
Package Downloads
Packages for the two main styles of
packaging systems, the RedHat/Fedora RPM-style packaging system, and the
Debian dpkg-style system are
offered.
Likewise, the scripts to build these packages
and instructions on how to use them are included in the
source distribution
under the packages directory.
The RPM packages will likely work across the most recent versions of RedHat and Fedora, with a good chance of also working on Mandrake or SuSE, which also use the RPM system.
RedHat/Fedora RPM packages (built on Fedora Core 7)
Debian .deb package (built on Debian GNU/Linux 4.0)
These packages include Alpine, Pico, and other smaller programs that are
also part of a standard alpine build. UW-Imapd, which is also part of a
standard Alpine build, is a program of which it is recommended to have a
better understanding, and is thus not included in these Alpine packages.
For most cases, it should be enough simply to grab the first binary
package and run the following command:
If installing the binary RPM fails, you will quite likely succeed by
installing from the source RPM. You can build from source RPM either
by installing the RPM as you would the binary one, building it using
the
To install the .deb package, the following command should suffice:
As with building RPMs, the alpine distribution includes a collection
of files for building .deb files yourself.
If you prefer to setup PC-Alpine yourself, download the .zip file containing only the PC-Alpine program.
If upgrading from PC-Pine, PC-Alpine can be installed alongside the
older program. Installing PC-Alpine leaves PC-Pine in place, to be
removed at the user's discretion. PC-Alpine can be set up to point to
its own configuration, or it can be pointed to PC-Pine's
configuration. If upgrading from an older version of PC-Alpine, the
installer will update the PC-Alpine already in place.
PC-Alpine relies on an external program, aspell, for its spell checker.
Aspell can be obtained at http://aspell.net/win32.
The Alpine Technical Notes contain detailed explanations about
installation,
support files and
environment variables, and
noteworthy facts
about running the Alpine email client on a personal computer.
The Unix svn command might be used like this:
After the first checkout a later update could be done like this:
When building on a Windows system there is no configure command and the make
command is replaced with the command
Installing RPMs
rpm -ivh alpine-2.00-1.i386.rpm
This installation should succeed on most recent RedHat and Fedora
systems, and will likely succeed on recent Mandrake systems as well.
Other useful rpm commands include:
rpm -Uvh alpine-2.00-1.i386.rpm
to upgrade an existing alpine installation, and
rpm -e alpine
to uninstall an existing alpine installation.
alpine.spec file that gets put in the SPECS
directory, or by running the command
rpmbuild --rebuild alpine-2.00-1.src.rpm
Both of these methods require having sufficient permissions to build
in the source directory; consult the instructions
for building using spec files in packages/README in the full source (alpine.tar.gz)
to better understand how to do this.
Installing .debs
dpkg -i alpine_2.00_i386.deb
Uninstalling the package can be done by running the command
dpkg -r alpine
Windows Downloads
The PC-Alpine Windows application is available as either an installer
program, or as an individual binary to be installed manually. The
installer, which will install and set up Alpine and Pico so that it
shows in the Windows start menu programs list, is the preferred method
for most users. It is available here:
PC-Alpine setup program (MD5: 6085cc628179eb9606765154a74732f4
)
alpine-2.00-wnt.zip (MD5: cef694c0b13419c6b43585ba1da35304
)
Pre-Compiled Binary Downloads
Because Alpine, Pico and other components of the Alpine Messaging
system are self contained applications, it is usually sufficient to
simply download the pre-compiled binaries and copy them to a generally
accessible directory, such as /usr/local/bin.
Mac OS X Universal Binaries (Alpine version 1.10)
Mac OS X binaries are built under version 10.5 using configure options --enable-osx-universal-binaries and --disable-dependency-tracking. Binaries currently available are:
alpine (MD5: d498be54d419b9cfa4ce8c6b3aba06cd
)
pico (MD5: 15348b216e6c9a90e680423511f9c7fe
)
imapd (MD5: 4867e06137df7f2efc5203aa55f6f005
)
mailutil (MD5: 43193486e3ec35791d313da9267366cf
)
pilot (MD5: 7aa38c25cfae96b973a0095d37d27424
)
rpdump (MD5: 3eeee5eb007c61be7a07bc13385b33ae
)
rpload (MD5: 25bd22bf7c7993dd1c113c843fd21280
)
Nokia N800 binaries (Alpine version 1.10)
Nokia N800 binaries are built for IT OS 2007 and later and presumed to run on IT OS 2006 using configure options --with-passfile=.pinepwd. Binaries are currently available as a gzip'd tar file at:
alpine-1.10-n800.tar.gz (MD5: 0ef1001843bbaf94f01cef31608c00b0
)
Snapshots of Development Code
Snapshots of our development sources for Alpine are available from
our ReadOnly Subversion (svn) repository at:
https://svn.cac.washington.edu/public/alpine/snapshots/
% mkdir alpinetest
% cd alpinetest
% svn checkout https://svn.cac.washington.edu/public/alpine/snapshots/
% cd snapshots
% ./configure; make
% cd alpinetest/snapshots
% svn update
% make
.\build wnt
