Getting back into Linux and having trouble setting up these text editting or email clients? Just installed this fabulous Ubuntu Package System where you never have to look for any utility, just do an "sudo apt-get install"?

Well, it seems like due to some licensing issues, pico and pine are distributed as source only, binaries are not allowed to be distributed.

So, I recommend the following alternatives, which are apt-get'able : Nano as a replacement clone for Pico and Alpine as a replacement for Pine . 

Nano is released under GPL

Alpine is released under an Apache License.