install pine/alpine on Amazon EC2 linux

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Can someone tell me how to install pine or alpine (the text-based e-mail client) on an Amazon EC2 linux instance running Amazon Linux?

yum install pine and yum install alpine did not work.

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forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=377634 based on this thread pine/alpine is no longer available on Amazon Linux. Maybe a good time to switch to mutt? - number5

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There is some support for pine and derivatives. You can install alpine on Amazon, with:

sudo yum install alpine --enablerepo=epel
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if it doesn't show up with a yum search, its unlikely that the packages are in the repository. You can try adding another repository that do have the packages. Centos/Redhat repositories work for the most part, but you might run into issues with dependencies.