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#23
Originally Posted by dagoss View Post
I'll buy you another. Installing alpine is one of the first things I wanted to do with my n900—I can't stand the built in mail client. (I'd also like to remove quite a few of these pre-installed programs that clutter up my menu, but that's another story).

Anecdotally, how difficult *is* it to build a package to work on the n900? I am by no means a programmer, hacker, or someone who can tie their own shoes, but there are quite a few packages I want on my n900 that aren't in the repos to the best of my knowledge, like cmus, newsbeuter, and links2.
It's not very hard if you have at least some experience compiling programs on a linux machine. If you get stuck (as I have several times) there's almost always someone who will help you on the maemo IRC channel.