toothandnail has packaged the latest version of nano for VL 5.9.
Package: nano-2.0.9-i586-1vl59.tlz
MD5: 6f8ea79a5b18c898383d878e854ba114
Package Size: 349K
Installed Size: 1560K
Sources:
http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/veclinux-5.9/source/testing/base-apps/nanonano: nano (an open source alternative to the Pico text editor)
nano:
nano: Nano was started as an alternative to the Pico editor, due to
nano: restrictions in the Pine licence. It is a powerful, user friendly
nano: text editor with many options.
nano:
nano:
nano:
nano: License: GPL
nano: Authors: Chris Allegretta & others
nano: Website: http://www.nano-editor.org/
After testing this package, please take a moment and come back to this thread to let us know how it works for you.