Chapter 4. Software available in the Debian system

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  Currently, support for German , Spanish , Finnish , French , Hungarian , Italian 

, Japanese , Korean  and Polish language manual pages is provided through the

manpages LANG

packages (where LANG is the two letter ISO country code). To ac 

cess an NLS manual page, the user must set the shell LC_MESSAGES variable to the

appropriate string.

For example, in the case of the Italian language manual pages, LC_MESSAGES needs

to be set to 'italian'. The

man

program will then search for Italian manual pages under

/usr/share/man/it/

.

4.9 What about the US export regulation limitations?

US laws placed restrictions on the export of defense articles, which includes some types of

cryptographic software. PGP and ssh, among others, fall into this category. For the sarge release

packages in this archive were moved to the main archive (or to non free, if applicable) due to

the US relaxing its regulations on the export of cryptography.

To prevent anyone from taking unnecessary legal risks, certain Debian GNU/Linux packages

were only available from a non US site

ftp://non US.debian.org/debian non US/

,

with numerous mirror sites all of which are also outside of the US, see

ftp://non US.

debian.org/debian non US/README.non US

for a full list. These sites still exist (for the

benefit of users of woody) but its contents are no longer supported and are considered obsolete.

Please remove any mentions to non US from your sources in your

/etc/apt/sources.list

configuration file.

4.10 Where is pine?

Due to its restrictive license, it's in the non free area. Moreover, since license does not even

allow modified binaries to be distributed, you have to compile it yourself from the source and

the Debian patches.

The source package name is

pine

. You can use the

pine tracker

package to be notified

about when you need to upgrade.

Note that there are many replacements for both pine and pico, such as

mutt

and

nano

, that

are located in the main section.

4.11 Where is qmail/ezmlm/djbdns?

Dan J. Bernstein distributes all software he has written (

http://cr.yp.to/software.

html

) with a restrictive license, consequently, it's in the non free area. Since the license he

uses does not allow modified binaries to be distributed, you have to compile it yourself from

the source and the Debian patches to obtain a binary package you can install in your Debian

GNU/Linux system.